Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 523 All sacrifices come at a price
The mobility of workers in private enterprises is very strong. Very few people go out to buy something after get off work and just leave.

More often than not, the workers went home after the Spring Festival and disappeared without a trace.

Among the more than 5000 workers in several factories under Xiangyang Electronics, more than 4000 are female workers.The scale of such a factory is not the largest in Guangdong Province. There are 2 workers in several large foundries in Guangdong Province.

Girls may stay in their hometown after returning home for a blind date and getting married, or they may follow their husbands to work in other cities or other factories.

The situation of Xiangyang Electronics is still good, more than 5000 workers will be short of no more than 500 when they come back.

However, Wang Weidong still feels dissatisfied, because after a month or two of work, workers have memory in their hands, which is much more efficient than inexperienced workers, and the possibility of mistakes is very small, and there is less waste of materials.

So how to retain workers has become a big problem.

The wages of private enterprises in Guangdong Province have not changed much in recent years, and wages in some small factories have a tendency to decrease.

Because many state-owned enterprises have closed down in recent years, and township enterprises have also closed down one after another, so the tide of going out to work has been higher and higher. Most of them flock to Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places where there are many private enterprises. The main force to solve the employment pressure.

Since there are so many people looking for work, the boss has the confidence not to raise wages, or even reduce wages.

You don't do it, some people do it!
But Wang Weidong doesn't think so. He wants to be on par with foreign-funded enterprises in Guangdong Province.

Whenever a foreign-funded enterprise recruits, the recruiters are overwhelmed!
Therefore, foreign-funded enterprises can choose the best from the best. Some young people scolded Xiaobenzi after gnashing their teeth while drinking the night before, but the next day when they heard that Xiaobenzi Automobile Factory was recruiting, they didn’t hesitate to talk about it. ran away.

Wang Weidong convened a meeting of four people in Fushan, and the secretary of the board of directors Shi Yueshuang attended the meeting.

"I looked at the financial statistics in the past few days. In several of our subordinate factories, the wages of workers in the electronic tube factory accounted for only 10% of the total cost, and the wages of the factory that produced decoder boards and movements accounted for less than 15% of the total cost. Only factories that produce inverters account for the highest proportion of total cost, 19%,” said Wang Weidong.

The reason why the wages of factory workers who produce inverters account for a high proportion of the total cost is that Xiangyang Electronics still has a small semiconductor factory far away in Germany.

The German workers in that factory paid Xiangyang Electronics 8.5 marks for every hour they worked.Seven hours of work a day is almost 60 marks.

Calculated at the current exchange rate of 8.3 between the mark and the RMB, the wages earned by German workers for a day’s work are more than the monthly wages of workers in the Fushan factory!

"I want to increase the wages of the three factories in Fushan by 20%, and increase the overtime wages in the same proportion. This will improve the enthusiasm and seriousness of the workers. If the wages of Xiangyang Electronics and other factories in Fushan are the same Almost, workers can leave as soon as they want, without any hesitation. If they want to leave after they are promoted, they should think carefully about it.” Wang Weidong said.

Ou Xiaojun is the director and knows the overall situation of Xiangyang Electronics very well.

Hearing what Wang Weidong said, Ou Xiaojun said: "Now the total monthly salary of Xiangyang Electronics is 60 million. If it is increased by 20%, it will increase by 30 yuan per month. This is not a small number."

"Brother Xiaojun, I don't think the increase is much. The tax rates and fees that Xiangyang Electronics pays to the national and local governments every year exceed hundreds of items, with a total of 6000 to 5000 million. Let's not talk about it, it is us What enterprises should do. We at Xiangyang Electronics respond to the call every year, and donate millions of dollars, which is enough to pay more than 20 workers a salary. The annual apportionment of books and periodicals is tens of thousands. Add up to [-], right?" Wang Weidong said.

Qi Jianguo and Zhang Zhifeng were high-level wage earners in front of Wang Weidong and Ou Xiaojun. Hearing Wang Weidong and Ou Xiaojun's argument about raising wages, neither of them expressed their opinions.

But from the bottom of their hearts, they certainly hope to raise wages.Because for them, an increase of 20% means an extra income of tens of thousands of dollars per year.

"After the wages increase, the efficiency of production will also increase. Workers will no longer think about slapping their butts and leaving. Since we went to Yang Electronics, it will be difficult for them to earn such high wages. To the construction site You can earn so much money by carrying cement, but are they willing to go?" Wang Weidong said.

"Weidong, an annual increase of 500 million in total wages is really not much for us at Xiangyang Electronics, but if we do this, then we will be much higher than those factories in the same industry, and we will stand out. "Ou Xiaojun said.

Among the various electronics factories in Fushan, although the bosses have not sat together to negotiate, there is a tacit understanding in everyone's heart about workers' wages.

Ou Xiaojun is worried that it is not good for Xiangyang Electronics to break this tacit understanding.

One thing that can immediately come to mind is that when workers go to other factories to apply for jobs, they are likely to say: "Xiangyang Electronics opens so many workers, why does your factory open so few?"

What boss would like this to happen?

"When we raise the wages of workers, we will naturally raise the recruitment standards. Starting next spring, among the workers recruited during the probationary period, those who are slow to master the skills and have problematic work attitudes will be resolutely fired. We will never be soft-hearted! All workers must be serious about their work, and those who are inefficient at work and make mistakes that cause product damage to a certain extent must be resolutely fired!" Wang Weidong said.

Hearing what Wang Weidong said, Qi Jianguo and Zhang Zhifeng both took a look at him.

Both of them used to work in state-owned enterprises, and they never fired a worker during their tenure as leaders. No matter how bad the worker's performance was, you would never fire him.

Although Wang Weidong raised the wages, the workers will be more trembling when they work, not daring to be sloppy or make mistakes.

Increased wages are compensated by increased worker efficiency.

It's a bit like the little book movie "Ah, Wild Ridge", adding a sweet potato to the worker and setting the clock on the wall back an hour.

Of course, Wang Weidong's approach is definitely not as bloody as the small book capitalists, and it is more covert, not naked exploitation.

"All efforts come at a price. When we raise wages, workers must work harder!" Wang Weidong said.

(End of this chapter)