<br>"Floor wage" create "broken pot mentality"<br> <br>Work stoppage, which was originally the last worker rights "trump card," Why are often spread out the first time?<br> <br>Text / "Outlook" Newsweek reporter Ye Qian<br> <br>Xinmin Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, the former community labor service station, crowded. Local government official announced with a big horn workmen factories violate labor contract law reflects the findings. This case arises from one hundred yuan overtime controversial stoppage lasted ten days.<br> <br>Also at the end of June, the Bank of Korean handbag factory gate door Panyu District of Guangzhou City, with the most original "notice" to lay-off workers are committed to improving the working environment. Here stoppage began in the owner into the ladies room.<br> <br>Two similar scene reflects the evolution of the trajectory of recent onset of a class of work stoppages: little somethin together as a fuse, brought the accumulated long-term work in a variety of grievances and collective outbreak. Workers' demands varied, often lack the negotiators, it is difficult to form a unified opinion that protracted labor disputes.<br> <br>A variety of demands,roshe run pas cher, the salary is the core. "Outlook" Newsweek survey found in the Pearl River Delta region, many manufacturing enterprises, "floor wage" to the local minimum wage salary; a large number of workers in the formation of "broken pot mentality": salary satisfaction is hard to find, but to find a job and difficult, holding "a big deal to leave," the idea, for their jobs do not cherish, when labor disputes occur, tend to use the ultimate means easier - stoppage.<br> <br>Experts interviewed believe that the workers set up a work-based social security and welfare system, workers with a steady job, a guaranteed future to look forward to, workers are facing labor conflicts will be more rational and prudent.<br> <br>Causes trivial<br> <br>Located in Chang'an Town, Dongguan Kuhne precision clocks plant is large Japanese watchmaker - Citizen's enterprises, the whole plant more than 2,300 employees. From June 12 to June 23, workers lockout lasted ten days.<br> <br>Factory Case processing department employee told reporters that the factory had equipment failure due to power holiday for two days, and require employees in the next two Sundays, "make up classes." "Make up classes" belongs to days off, according to the normal time to go to work unpaid. But in the opinion of workers, factory workers, due to their own reasons for weekend work, overtime should be paid overtime wages according to holiday.<br> <br>Workers express this dissatisfaction to section chief,nike air max 90,http://classified.showmetimes.com/item/727848, to reflect the requirements of the manufacturer. But the factory did not make any response. Workers recalled that on Sunday June 12, the workers have time to plant, do not know who instigated it, everyone would agree that work stoppage in protest.<br> <br>Initially involved in stoppage only case processing sector who spread the message in the factory when the peak of nearly 2,000 people to join the work stoppage team.<br> <br>The workers told the reporter, the factory implementation of the "basic salary + overtime pay" wage system, a two-day "overtime" or "make up classes," wage differentials but about one hundred yuan. Even for migrant workers, it is not too big number. A worker bluntly, overtime is really just a prelude, downtime is mainly due to the workers has long been unreasonable, unlawful management, unfair treatment, the legitimate rights and interests are infringed a collective catharsis.<br> <br>Kuhne precision clocks factory chairman in an interview with reporters interview, confirmed the statement about the cause for the suspension of workers, while recognizing the factory in the management process of some "inappropriate behavior."<br> <br>Guangzhou Panyu Hualong World Gate handbag is a Korean-owned enterprises, in 1992 to set up factories, mainly produces handbags,moncler sito ufficiale, wallets and other leather products, leather goods and a number of international brand OEM. Factory workers about 5,000 people, mostly women.<br> <br>June 20, workers spread a message - the newly appointed Korean male boss into female toilets "grasping lazy staff", thousands of workers shut down protest angrily. Stoppage lasted four days.<br> <br>Mine worker from Guangxi full offer that the boss into the ladies room was just a prelude strong, long-term backlog of worker discontent to vent out, chatter all sorts of "inhuman treatment": not allowed to drink during working hours, every four hours before being allowed a trip to the toilet, no male dormitory, sick women not to live in the dormitory, canteen food to the poor "is not a person to eat."<br> <br>Multiple demands<br> <br>A handwritten by the Dongguan Kuhne precision clocks factory workers, submitted to the demands of the local labor department's book, citing the workers' long-term accumulation of grievances ":" arrive 10 minutes early will cause the plant to open as early as unpaid overtime "," into the factory When uniform fee be charged 100 yuan deposit, "" 250 yuan a month for food withheld personal income tax, "" forced overtime "," management frequently points penalty and threatening to terminate the labor contract "," no union " and many more.<br> <br>Over the years, State-owned Enterprises by headquarters habit, set to open 10 minutes earlier every day "early meeting", arranged a day's work. Thus, the working time is up, the workers can posts. Workers think that this 10 minutes should be considered overtime.<br> <br>Enterprises from the employee payroll deductions as 250 yuan a month for food, and this included total wages tax deductible. However, many workers are not three meals a day eating at the factory canteen. Workers people think: should "eat as much, how much deduction," but did not send the money to the hands and should not be taxable.<br> <br>Moreover, enterprises have established trade unions, but with a lot of foreign companies, is a "shadow union" basically dormant, workers are demanding "sound union."<br> <br>There are some employees that the enterprise in violation of the labor contract law, had constituted "employee required to terminate the labor contract and to obtain economic compensation" conditions. Crown Victoria precision clocks in Dongguan factory worked more than six years, said Huang sea, the factory has more than 300 factory downtime of appeal is dismissed them and to give economic compensation.<br> <br>Passive dismissal and resigning difference is the presence or absence of economic compensation. By law, to terminate the labor contract by the company shall pay one month's salary for each year of compensation. Many workers in the past 10 years seniority can get two or three million in compensation. According to our reporter survey, requested the dismissal of the workers are more concentrated in the factory polished section. Since the polishing process will produce dust, some people worry that will lead to pneumoconiosis, and therefore want to leave another job.<br> <br>However, the factory insisted that reflect the situation of workers is insufficient to support the lifting of the labor contract and to obtain compensation.<br> <br>Handbag factory in Panyu Shi door, in addition to changing the demanding requirements of the factory management system, part of the workers asked the factory to take this basic wage increase from 1100 to 1300 yuan, and in March this year, just raise the minimum wage in Guangzhou correspondence.<br> <br>"Broken pot" mentality<br> <br>Articles reporters found that in some places, does not necessarily mean high-tech industries with high added value and high-income workers, because foreign companies often just downstream of the labor-intensive process industries in China, such as Foxconn Apple phone, the South China Sea Honda series of auto parts plant in Dongguan production of Citizen watches, the international brand leather handbag factory in Panyu foundry. These companies tend to workers across the board implementation of "floor wage" to the minimum wage as a basic wage of workers in order to make more money, it must work overtime.<br> <br>Whether in like precision watchmaking factory in Dongguan Crown Victoria seemingly high-end enterprise, or the World door Shoudai such traditional labor-intensive enterprises, working 12 hours a day is the norm, and sometimes have to work 14 hours.<br> <br>A worker Shi door handbag told the reporter, working 12 hours a day, a month after deducting social security charges and meals, etc., to get around the hands of only 1950 yuan. Such "floor wage" pay system is common in labor-intensive enterprises.<br> <br>"Two thousand dollars to work in the Pearl River Delta where not,http://www.epastorsnetwork.com/cgi-bin/guestbook/guestbook.cgi? Big deal to leave chant." Worker participation stoppage general revealed this "relaxed" mentality.<br> <br>Sun Yat-sen,louboutin femme, vice president of government affairs, Professor Yue Jinglun said, precisely because the wages of enterprises in the "high degree of unity", the workers lost power and pressure occupation competition for jobs in front of it does not matter to cherish. Work stoppage, which was originally the last worker rights "trump card", often spread out the first time, sudden particularly evident.<br> <br>According to our reporter survey, for work in a factory for more than 10 years old employees, they get the "development" is more than a month out of three other employees five hundred dollars of seniority wages, overtime and sometimes because of his slightly low income workers less than the new recruits just.<br> <br>International Research Center of Zhongshan University China main labor issues Professor Gao Chao long been engaged in any labor problem that there is no security, you do not see the future development, manufacturing monolithic "floor wage", to express interest demands is not clear, "labor shortage" will bring find a job easily, multiple factors causing workers do not cherish the present jobs,moncler femme, with the saying goes, it is "", "big deal to leave", for once it was launched downtime, it is easy to respond to, I hope to gain some of the benefits.<br> <br>Social Risk<br> <br>Yue Jinglun reminded that there is no negotiation between employers and employees in the true sense, relying solely on the strong involvement of the government labor department, then a unilateral commitment by the employers as well as to government departments to workers, as the protagonist of the workers are often absent collective negotiation, this The between both parties on the table of negotiation between the enterprise and became the official "bargain", this way, both caused by enterprises and government departments "secret operations" a bad impression to the workers, but also easy on the specific demands to employers "passing" opportunities.<br> <br>Precision watch factory in Dongguan Crown Victoria factory, said the factory is hoping to sit down and talk and workers,http://www.democratie-socialisme.org/spip.php?article3502, but the workers do not want to be represented, or shouting "Do not be representatives."<br> <br>Some workers of the correspondents to explain why workers do not want to be represented, or would have been worried as the representative of "retaliation." Workers involved in work stoppage, said the shutdown of more than 20 days, the workers went on foot apart from the town government, the other time is not in the factory, is in quarters, in addition to not start, did not do anything.<br> <br>In recent years, many cases show that, due to the demands of workers scattered, no negotiators, both sides difficult to carry out effective consultation, communication, downtime often last a long time. Protracted can easily lead to escalation, workers may be due to lack of timely response to the demands of calm and satisfaction, and turn to take drastic action to find a solution.<br> <br>It carries the dream of integration into the city, China's new generation of migrant workers sense of equality and rights awareness gradually. Guangzhou Federation of Trade Unions survey, 45% of the new generation of migrant workers that "pay for equal work" is the unfair treatment, 27% of people want to participate in "rights training." Nearly half of people want their government to "improve the social situation, improve the social status."<br> <br>"On a deeper level, for migrant workers to work to establish the basis of social security and welfare system, such as children's schooling and pension security, to individuals with 'a steady job, a guaranteed future' is to look forward, exposing workers to labor conflict will be more rational and prudent. "Yue Jinglun said.<br> <br>At present, Guangdong has started the legislative process collective negotiation of labor relations, Yue Jinglun believes that in order to establish a normal wage increases and collective labor dispute consultation mechanism is a priority.<br> <br>Institutional environment changes still to follow-up the impact of precision watch factory in Dongguan Crown Victoria stoppages also has not yet subsided.<br> <br>June 28, the factory notice, during the work stoppage had not counted wages to the workers. That afternoon, disgruntled workers once again short stoppage.<br> <br>June 29, with the participation of the local government people, the factory dismissal of eight group leaders lead downtime. July 1, and dismissed additional 13 workers involved in stoppages.<br> <br>So far, 21 was dismissed workers are still among activists, but did not get a positive response from the parties concerned.<br> <br>Welcome to comment I want to comment<br> Microblogging Recommended | today's hot microblogging<br>
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