industrial overlord

Chapter 693 Hola!

When Lin Zhenhua arrived at the Mutong Iron Mine in eastern Bolivia with a team of hundreds of people, the strike in the mining area was still going on.Looking around, the entire mine is deserted, only the cadres and workers sent by the Chinese side are sticking to their posts, carrying out necessary equipment maintenance and security work.

It is said that after the workers' strike started, officials of the Bolivian government, such as Minister of Industry Condoli and others, also rushed to the scene to understand the situation, but they were powerless about the trade union's decision. It is best to back off a step so as not to affect production.

According to the instructions of the group headquarters, Hanhua Mining Co., Ltd. took a silent attitude towards the strike. It neither asked the strikers to resume work immediately, nor promised to negotiate with them.Such an attitude made the trade union quite surprised, but Zhao Yongqun also said that Hanhua Group will send high-level personnel to solve the matter, and the company will not cooperate with the trade union until the domestic people arrive. What agreement was reached.

The production of Mutong Iron Mine has just been carried out for a few months, and it has not yet entered a state of full capacity, so Hanhua can also afford it.If the production process has gone smoothly, a strike here will affect several subsequent links, so it may be difficult to be calm when dealing with this kind of strike.

Hearing that Lin Zhenhua had arrived, Zhao Yongqun and Fang Lei greeted him together, and invited Lin Zhenhua and several other accompanying cadres to sit down in the conference room, while the other staff who came with them were led to the guest room to rest.

After calling everyone to sit down and pouring tea, Zhao Yongqun sat down next to Lin Zhenhua, and hurriedly began to do self-criticism: "Zhenhua, I blame me for not handling this matter well. Come here."

Lin Zhenhua patted Zhao Yongqun on the shoulder and said, "Yongqun, I can't blame you for this matter. The group has already held a meeting to discuss it. This turmoil will come sooner or later. The matter of McMeekin is just an introduction."

"If I can handle it better..." Zhao Yongqun was still blaming himself.

Fang Lei, who was sitting on the other side of Lin Zhenhua, interjected, "Mr. Zhao, I think what Mr. Lin said is right. This is not a matter of how well we handled it, but that the other party wants to take advantage of this matter to complain to us." We make trouble. The conflict between us and the miners' union will happen sooner or later. They are just waiting for an excuse. Besides, if we don't deal with the matter of McMeekin seriously, our production order will not be guaranteed. gone."

Hearing Fang Lei's interjection, Lin Zhenhua turned his head to him and said, "Fang Lei, your analysis just now makes sense. Then, according to your point of view, how should this matter be handled?"

Fang Lei's original position was not high, and he was promoted to the management after the establishment of the Mutong Iron Mine. He was still a little uncomfortable with his position psychologically.Hearing the direct question from the chairman of the group, he was a little embarrassed, and he hesitated: "This...how to deal with it should be a matter for the group to decide. I'm not suitable for talking nonsense."

Lin Zhenhua said: "This is nothing to talk about. We are here to solve the problem. You are the first to come to Bolivia and know more about the local situation than others. Therefore, I really hope to hear your opinion on this matter. .”

Fang Lei looked at the crowd, finally summoned up his courage, and said, "I think what happened this time is both a bad thing and a good thing. I don't need to talk about the bad things. I think it's a good thing between us and the trade union. Conflicts will erupt sooner or later, and it is easier to resolve conflicts before they have accumulated too deeply than to erupt later.... President Lin, do you think I am right?"

Lin Zhenhua laughed and said, "That's right, let's continue."

Encouraged, Fang Lei gained confidence in his heart and spoke more fluently: "I think we are not familiar enough with the local workers now. They have some awareness of precautions against us, and they also have some ideas for further understanding. So , taking advantage of this opportunity to solve the strike problem, we can go deep among the workers and cultivate their trust in us. If this strike breaks out later, we want to change the image after the workers have a fixed impression of us It's also very difficult."

"Xiao Fang, you said it very well!" Lin Zhenhua couldn't help but praise.Although Fang Lei didn't speak out the truth like Zhu Tiejun did, his thoughts coincided with Zhu Tiejun's.He also believed that the strike issue should be resolved through communication with the workers, and at the same time, this opportunity should be used to build a relationship of trust between the workers and the company, which was exactly the purpose of Lin Zhenhua's trip.

Fang Lei was able to think of these things, which made Lin Zhenhua very relieved. The younger generation of cadres has gradually grown up, which is very important for a company that hopes to have long-term development.

"Xiao Fang, do you think we can build trust with the workers in Bolivia?" Lin Zhenhua asked intentionally.

"I see enough." Zhao Yongqun said in a low voice, "They see us as foreigners, and we can't communicate with each other at all. How can they trust us?"

Fang Lei retorted: "Mr. Zhao, I don't think that's the case. You don't understand Spanish, so you can't communicate with the workers. But those of us who came earlier can speak Spanish without any problem, so we and There are more opportunities for workers to communicate. In fact, I found that Bolivian workers are not much different from our domestic workers, and even deal with them better than our domestic workers in some aspects. Their personality is very straightforward, as long as you talk to them directly Talk to them, and they'll open their hearts to you."

Zhao Yongqun rubbed his head and said depressedly: "So, I really need to learn some Spanish."

Lin Zhenhua smiled and said to his former playmate: "Yong Qun, you really have to learn some Spanish, at least you have to learn some English, right? When you are a leader abroad, you don't know any foreign language. How can you understand workers? Dynamic?"

Zhao Yongqun sighed: "Oh, I just thought that mining was relatively simple, so I competed to be the general manager of this mining company. Who would have thought that to be a general manager would have to learn a foreign language. My Chinese is not very good. Man, how can I learn Spanish."

Everyone laughed. Zhao Yongqun is a good hand at work, and he is a bit desperate, but he is not good at learning. It is really difficult for him to learn Spanish out of thin air.

Lin Zhenhua comforted: "Yong Qun, in fact, you are not required to learn a foreign language to a certain extent. You only need to be able to carry out some simple daily conversations. What the workers need is your attitude. Look at those foreign-funded enterprises in China. If the manager of the foreign company can speak a few words of Chinese, even if it is something like 'Ni Hao', the workers will feel very friendly. Do you think so?"

Zhao Yongqun lowered his head and thought for a while, then nodded with a smirk: "Zhenhua, you really mean something when you say that. In the past, if the foreign experts in the company could speak a few words of Chinese, we felt very kind."

Lin Zhenhua said: "That's right. You are the general manager in Bolivia, and you don't know a word of Spanish. How do you let the workers get close to you? If the workers can't get close to you, they will naturally get close to the trade union."

"I understand." Zhao Yongqun said, "I understand where my problem lies. From the beginning, I never thought of making friends with the local workers, so after the strike happened, I even made friends with them. We couldn’t find any relationship for negotiation. On the contrary, Fang Lei and the others have a lot of contacts in the local area, and they have found a lot of people to communicate with. Otherwise, those workers will not only go on strike, but also protest, and our mining area is really not so peaceful.”

Fang Lei said: "Mr. Zhao, you haven't experienced the situation when we first arrived in Santa Cruz. At that time, we didn't know the place well, and the local gangsters bullied us again. That's called nervousness." Well. Since then, we have tried every means to make friends with the locals, which is also a means of self-protection."

Fang Lei said it lightly, but everyone can imagine how difficult the situation was.At that time, there were probably only a few Chinese people in Santa Cruz, and if something really happened, they complained that they should not respond every day, and that the land would not work.Today's situation is much better. Hanhua has invested billions of dollars in the Mutong Iron Mine and has a huge asset.Local officials also regard the Chinese as the God of Wealth, and they are very respectful when they come in and out.It is precisely because of this that Zhao Yongqun and other latecomers have no sense of crisis, and live in the circle of Chinese people all day long, isolated from the world.

"Okay, Xiao Fang, I'll learn from you in the future." Zhao Yongqun was a little bit ashamed to ask, and he said to Fang Lei: "By the way, can you teach me now, how do you say 'hello' in Spanish?" of?"

"Hola." Fang Lei replied.

"Ola..." Zhao Yongqun stuttered to learn.

"Ola!" Lin Zhenhua led all the people to follow suit, and wiped their guns before the battle, so it's okay to be unhappy.

After a short rest for a day, Lin Zhenhua matched the people brought from China with the original management personnel of the mine, and divided them into twenty or thirty working groups, went to the area where the miners lived, and conducted home visits.Each working group includes cadres who specialize in mass work, mine managers and Spanish translators, and one or two locals as guides.

In order to avoid unnecessary losses, Lin Zhenhua also asked Fang Lei to contact the local police station, who would send police officers to strengthen patrols in the area where the Chinese working group is active.Of course, for this matter, Fang Lei stuffed the police chief with a rather thick red envelope.

Lin Zhenhua and Zhao Yongqun also participated in a team of work groups. This is what they have to do. If they don’t personally follow the work group to do interviews, they will not be able to understand the real situation on the scene, so they will not be able to guide the work of the masses. .

A transnational mass movement began.

(End of this chapter)