Although they are all workers, workers in different factories receive very different treatments.
In the general environment, all workers' wages are paid according to their level. For workers of the same level, except for some types of work whose wages will be slightly higher, the wages of workers in most factories are still the same. However, better factories will distribute different benefits during festivals and holidays.
Take Jiang Dagu and her husband for example. Meng Pingchuan's machinery factory is profitable. During festivals, they distribute cakes, rice and other subsidies. During the Chinese New Year, they also give each employee a chicken and a duck, as well as dozens of kilograms of sea fish shipped from coastal cities. If the worker level is higher, there will be more hidden benefits. However, the textile factory where Jiang Dagu works is only average in profitability, with a slight surplus. Their holiday subsidies are not as much as those of the textile factory workers. At most, they can get some dyed fabrics from the factory. Comparing the two, the difference in hidden subsidies is at least a hundred yuan a year, which is not a small gap at present.
However, a factory with good performance means a higher intensity of labor. Take the No. 1 National Cotton Mill, the cotton spinning mill with the best performance in recent years, for example. The machines run 24 hours a day, with three shifts of eight hours each. The workers have to run back and forth in front of the spindles and looms every day, and they don't even have time to drink water while working.
This is a factory with good performance. In those factories with poor performance and no orders, a group of workers stay in the factory with almost nothing to do. They go to work as usual and get paid as usual, but the content of their work has become chatting and joking. They only walk slowly to their jobs when there is work occasionally, and they do not forget to slack off during this time.
The products produced under this attitude will have some degree of negligence in quality, and the direct consequence is that orders are getting fewer and fewer. Now the workers in state-owned enterprises cannot be fired, and under the vicious cycle, the workers in those factories have become more and more fearless and lazy, and each of them almost thinks of himself as the boss. The male workers simply gather in the factory to play big cards, while the female workers sign in and then slip back home to look after the children and do housework, and they don't behave like normal working workers at all.
It sounds strange, but this is the current situation faced by some factories. It is also the reason why a large wave of layoffs was ushered in after the concept of layoffs was proposed in the 1990s.
Jiang Yilu and Xia Ai visited the food factory in person, and they once again reaffirmed their determination not to give in no matter how good the price Xia Ai offered.
"County magistrate, look, this is our production line." The director of the food factory was standing aside leading the way, nodding and bowing to the middle-aged man in the lead.
The county magistrate looked at Xia Ai and Jiang Yilu who were walking behind him and had not spoken a word since they entered the factory. The two were sent by the higher-ups to inspect the food factory. The county magistrate thought that they were so young and probably belonged to some wealthy family, so he did not dare to offend them easily. He wanted to see what they thought before speaking.
"Are all the workers in your food factory here?" Jiang Yilu looked at the entire production line. There were only a dozen workers standing there sparsely. Could it be that the others were in other production rooms?
"In the other rooms. I'll take you there after I finish touring this factory." The factory director wiped the sweat from his forehead imperceptibly. There were no tasks in the factory these days, so the workers just came to sign in and went home. The county governor didn't even say hello before his inspection. He had just secretly arranged for someone to go back and call him back. He hoped it was still in time.
Jiang Yilu and Xia Ai looked at each other. They naturally realized that the factory director was lying. It seemed that the workers in this food factory had more problems than they expected.
"These machines are almost all brand new. Every month we invite technicians from the machinery factory to come and do maintenance and repairs on them." The factory director walked in front and introduced the purpose of each machine to them. As he spoke, he kept his eyes on the movement at the door and spoke slowly, obviously trying to delay time.
Jiang Yilu didn't pay attention to his little actions. He just happened to be interested in those machines. If he set up his own factory in the future, he would have to buy one as well.
About ten minutes later, a furtive figure appeared outside the room and gestured to the factory director. A trace of joy flashed in the factory director's eyes. He quickly stopped introducing and said respectfully to the county magistrate: "This is just a small workshop. Let's go to the big workshop now. The machines here are all in the big workshop. I can introduce them to you when the time comes."
The factory director also noticed that the young man following the county magistrate seemed to be particularly interested in those machines.
"Okay, let's go over there." After getting Xia Ai's hint, the county magistrate nodded and agreed to the other party's proposal.
The workshop they visited this time was three or four times larger than the factory they had just visited. Even though Jiang Yilu was mentally prepared to a certain extent, he still couldn't help but be shocked.
Neatly organized machines, raw materials piled up like small hills. All the workers who had not been seen since entering the factory seemed to have appeared in this room, walking around the room carrying bags of flour. Some of the workers were stirring the raw materials in the raw material pool with sticks, looking extremely busy.
But if you look closely, you will find that many of the workers who should be wearing uniforms are wearing the wrong clothes, with gloves and hats missing and not dressed properly. Those who carry flour from the east hill to the west hill and then from the west hill to the east hill, no one knows what they are doing.
Jiang Yilu noticed at a glance that these people had just rushed over from home. This could be seen from the fact that the casing of the machines was still cold. It was obvious that these machines had just been turned on and had been running for a short time.
This is the worker you asked me to take over, Jiang Yilu winked at Xia Ai jokingly. Xia Ai had a blank expression on his face, but Jiang Yilu still saw some helplessness in his eyes.
To be honest, if Xia Ai didn't ask him to take in these workers, he would be happy to spend money to buy this factory. After all, the factory and machines are ready-made, and it saves him the trouble of rebuilding the factory. Moreover, this food factory has been open for so long, although the efficiency has always been average, at least some of the supplies are always complete, and it can also save Jiang Yilu a big trouble.
"What do you think?" After visiting the factory, Xia Ai took Jiang Yi to wander around the food factory. When they reached a secluded corner, he asked in a low voice.
"You saw it just now. How could I dare to hire workers like that? Besides, they are employees of a state-owned enterprise. Even if I am willing, they may not be willing to work for me. They might even organize a parade to protest. Wouldn't that be asking for trouble?" Jiang Yilu was really envious of the equipment in that factory, but he was also really troubled by those boss-like employees.
"Five hundred thousand. The factory, all the machines, and the remaining goods in the warehouse, a total of five hundred thousand." Xia Ai didn't waste any words and directly quoted the lowest price his grandfather offered him.
"You still..." Jiang Yilu took a breath of cold air. This price was really too low to be expected. The machines in the factory alone might not be worth this price, not to mention the dozens of steel-framed factory buildings. He thought at first that even if the other party gave him a preferential price, it would only be around 800,000 yuan. In this way, even if it was more convenient than building a factory by himself, it was not much more cost-effective.
The scale of this food factory is not small. Jiang Yilu conservatively estimated that if he were to build a food factory of the same scale, the capital would be at least around one million. At the beginning, he thought of building a smaller factory for the initial construction, with a budget of 500,000.
Now it seems that spending the same amount of money can get a factory that is two or three times the size. This is simply a bargain. Even though Jiang Yilu is determined, he couldn't help but waver.
"What is Grandpa Cheng thinking? Is the problem with state-owned enterprise employees so serious?" Jiang Yilu asked uncertainly. After all, in his previous life, it took another ten years before the country began to pay attention to this issue. Could this also be the butterfly effect?
Xia Ai did not answer his question directly. He walked a few more steps forward. There was a burst of wheat fragrance coming from the chimney of the factory, as if they were making biscuits.
"This food factory has a total of 143 workers, with an average salary of 55 yuan. In a year, the salary expenditure alone is no less than 100,000 yuan. In addition, this factory has been making losses almost every year except for the initial profit. Adding the expenses of water, electricity, coal, diesel, etc., the annual loss is about 300,000 yuan. There are hundreds of such state-owned enterprises across the country, and some are even larger in scale and suffer greater losses."
This is not the future. Many factories with poor performance cannot be closed easily because they have a large group of workers there. In many cases, it is the government that provides funding to keep those factories going. This is not a long-term solution. The higher-ups have long been thinking about how to deal with those factories.
"For example, this food factory has had eight factory managers, and almost every one of them has racked their brains to revive the factory, but unfortunately they all failed. Reforms that are only in the form of formalities, rather than completely changing the old constitution inherent in state-owned enterprises from top to bottom, are all failures."
"If you can successfully reassure those workers, it at least means that privatizing state-owned enterprises is feasible. Changing the method and mechanism of those long-rotten factories may help them regain their glory." Xia Ai's proposal was highly agreed by Grandpa Cheng. He also discussed the specific matters carefully with his old friends that night.
However, the old man still took a certain risk by handing the heavy responsibility of this matter to Jiang Yiliu, a boy who was not yet an adult. After all, it was not easy to be the first to take the lead, and the pressure involved was imaginable. Jiang Yiliu's words at the beginning left a deep impression on the old man. Although Jiang Yiliu's reluctance to pursue a political career disappointed the old man, he was willing to take a chance to test his ability now.
With five hundred thousand, he got a factory worth almost a million. Although there were a hundred old-looking employees, it seemed worthwhile. Jiang Yilu didn't believe it. Among those hundred people, there was not a single useful person.
"You are handing those employees over to me, you won't have no requirements at all, right?" Jiang Yiluo didn't believe that the condition was so simple. Otherwise, he would take over the factory and then fire all the employees or reduce their salaries. That would be completely different from the direction the other party wanted to experiment with.
"There are requirements. No employee can be fired within five years. No more than 10% of the employees can be fired within ten years. The salary level cannot be lower than the salary of formal state workers." Xia Ai turned his head and looked at Jiang Yiliu. "I believe that you have the ability to stabilize those workers. This deal is worth it."
Xia Ai said all that Jiang Yiliu could think of, and this request was indeed not excessive: "Okay, I am willing to buy this factory, but the issue of bank loan, I need you to help me with it. The factory costs 500,000, and I will borrow 600,000, and you have to leave some principal."
This question was simple for Xia Ai, it was just a matter of saying hello.
"Now that the factory purchase has been agreed, let's talk about my investment. I'll offer three hundred thousand." How could such delicious sauces and pickles not be sold? Xia Ai had already spotted the business opportunity of the food factory that Jiang Yilu was going to run. The reason why the price of this factory was so low was actually because of his selfish motives.
"You you you--" Jiang Yilu looked at the shameless man in front of him. This must not be Xia Ai.
"Three hundred thousand is at most 10%. Thirty percent of it belongs to my grandmother. She invested it in technology." In fact, even if Xia Ai didn't say anything, Jiang Yilu would have let him get on board. It's like a garment factory that hasn't opened yet. He has to hold on to this golden thigh tightly in advance.
"Deal." The two of them understood each other very well. Xia Ai looked at Jiang Yilu's pretended painful expression and curled the corners of his mouth.
"Since you are now a shareholder of our food factory, you can't let me be the only one worrying about the workers' issue." Jiang Yilu smiled. He would not let him off so easily.
Now it was Xia Ai's turn to have a stiff expression.
Jokes aside, how to appease this worker is really a big problem.
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