Lingering Contradictions Among Migrant Workers In Wenzhou

When he was in his hometown, Sanhe Village, Weining County, Guizhou, some villagers told him that finding jobs in Wenzhou was relatively easy.

There are dozens of large shoe leather enterprises in Wenzhou, one of the largest number of industrial parks in the past.

The fellow townsman who came with him worked in these shoe factories last year. According to them, the treatment is OK.

This year, the commencement of business has generally been delayed for a week.

Zhao Lizhong, the office director of Chuan Chuan shoe material Co., Ltd., Wenzhou, said that recently, the shoe material orders of the company were relatively small, and only seven or eight of the 30 machines were in production.

In previous years, the recruitment volume was more than seventy or eighty, and the treatment was higher than it is now.

He always felt that working life was much more free than staying at home.

After work, tiger Liang usually goes online with a group of familiar playmates to surf the Internet bar and visit the video game hall.

By the end of every month, the wages of last month have been exhausted.

Last year he worked in a sound factory in Dongguan. At the very beginning, the factory was busy. He had to work overtime for several hours every day.

However, since September, factory orders have begun to shrink dramatically, and his work has become "leisurely".

He goes to work every day instead of reading newspapers or chatting with his colleagues in the workshop.

Finally, the factory was shut down.

In Dongguan, most enterprises strictly implement the "8 hour working system", overtime pay, regulations and regulations are more standard and pparent.

In Wenzhou, some shoe companies work for more than ten hours a day. The boundaries between wages and overtime pay are not clear. Labor intensity is large and income is only a little higher than that in Dongguan.

But he never regretted coming out to work.

Hu Liangping said that parents grow ten thousand tobacco plants at home each year, with income of about 35 thousand yuan, plus corn and rice income, and a year's income is good.

"If I stay at home, I can not call a small worker when I'm busy, and tobacco can be sold at a good price, at least 5000 yuan."

He has been very uncomfortable with the dust floating on the dirt roads of his hometown and the burning coal smell of every household.

More importantly, he could not communicate with the villagers. Once a neighbor pointed to his brown hair, he said, "why is your hair so brown?

To this end, he promised his parents that he planned to save 5000 yuan this year.

As for whether this promise can be fulfilled, there is no bottom in his mind.

He said that finding jobs in Wenzhou is also very difficult. Now he is just a "city traveler and a guest in his hometown."

Unlike tiger Liangping's "young and single", he has three children who are studying and 70 plus years old parents, who feel pressure and responsibility all over.

He said that the clothes were left 20 years ago.

When he served as a soldier, the army sent him three sets of military uniform, one of which was worn out and the other set in Guizhou.

I have supper at 11 in the evening and prepare breakfast for second days in the morning.

"It takes 7 yuan to have dinner in the factory, and it's cheaper to go home."

His two children are studying at University, and the youngest daughter is in middle school.

The total expenditure of the three children is 40 thousand yuan a year, and the income of his husband and wife can only be supplied by 20 thousand yuan, and the other is relying on the bank student loan.

His wife works in another shoe factory, earning 1200 yuan a month.

After deducting the total cost of food, housing and so on, the two people can spare more than 2000 yuan per month.

Old Gu and other 24 workers went by.

2 months later, the boss only paid 600 yuan per person's living expenses, and then he was rude and unpaid.

In desperation, they had to go empty handed.

Six days ago, he found a job with a monthly salary of 1600 yuan, which was basically the same as last year.

He said that most of the enterprises started postponing this year, and there were many plans to recruit workers. However, as long as the mentality is put in place, the work can still be found.

His plan for the future is that when he fails to work, he will go home for farming and provide for the aged.

Before, his boss told him many times that he wanted to have an endowment insurance, and the company invested most of it.

Zhou Zhengcang did not want to. "It takes a lot of money for children to build houses and get married.

If I save money first, I will be able to use it later. When I am old, I will have a son. "

He has been working abroad for 8 years.

Starting from 2007, under the pressure of rising prices of raw materials, the order of this enterprise has been decreasing until production is stopped.

In January of this year, he returned to the familiar Wenzhou and continued to look for work.

Since September of last year, a large number of migrant workers have been gathered here every day, many of whom are carrying large bags from Guangdong.

Zou Chunping attributed the cause of singleness to "earning no money for work" and "raising the eyes of rural girls".

Pointing to a man, he pointed out that he had worked outside the city for 17 years, and because he could not earn money and other reasons, he was not in a hurry to return home.

He said, this is not the employment center does not provide jobs, but he suspected that the wages of enterprises are relatively low.

To cope with his livelihood, Zou Chunping can only occasionally go out to work as casual workers.

Wang Ouxiang, director of the office of the center, said that this year the phenomenon of "slow and hot" job hunting and recruitment in Wenzhou is obvious. The number of job seekers is decreasing and the number of job seekers is rising.

In the first half of 2008, the number of employees in Wenzhou's enterprises increased by 4.6% over the same period last year, an increase of 15.1 percentage points year-on-year, with an increase of 25.8 percentage points in the manufacturing industry.

But Zheng Shuming, director of Wenzhou Employment Management Service Bureau, believes that there is little possibility of unemployment in Wenzhou.

Wang Ouxiang suggested that the government should introduce policies to give priority to the employment of migrant workers through multiple channels.

Otherwise, once the economy recovers, there will be a new round of unprecedented and large-scale shortage of migrant workers.