Because Of The Shortage Of Women Workers, Qingdao Garment Enterprises Are Becoming Hot Men.

When clothes are made well, the work of ironing is almost done by young men.

When it comes to the production workshop in the clothing industry, many people will naturally think that many women workers are flying around. But on February 21st and 22, in the production workshop of Qingdao Chuangxing Garment Co., more than half of the busy workers are male workers, who are skilled in sewing clothes and ironing clothes.

"Since 2008, there are more and more male workers, and now there are more than half of the male workers in the factory."

Yu Yantao, manager of the factory, said that the main reason for the increasing number of male workers is that factories recruit people and women compete for women workers.

However, with the increase of male workers, the mobility of workers is increasing, resulting in a bigger gap of workers.

16 people, only two women workers.

On the fifteen day of the first day of the month, 6 people from the manager and manager of Yan Tao went to the North Station of the car to recruit people. There was a three or four day recruitment sign. Finally, more than 70 people came to the factory, of whom only 3 girls, and finally 16 people, including 2 girls.

"The proportion of men and women who used to wear clothes is 1:9, and now we have more than half male workers in our factory."

Yu Yantao said.

Chengyang Danshan Industrial Park, like Qingdao Chuangxing clothing.

Yu Yantao said that from 2008 to 2011, the wage level from 1100 yuan to 1200 yuan to 2000 yuan, an average annual increase of 20% to 30%. "This year, although the European and American markets are sluggish, raw material prices are rising, the renminbi has appreciated, but wages have risen by more than 10%, and now the weekend can rest.

Even though the treatment has been raised, it has not been able to recruit people from the second half of last year, and the workers have been reduced at a rate of 20% to 30%.

We originally had more than 200 people, and now we have 106 people in the company.

Chuangxing garment is responsible for workshop production.

Reporters interviewed found that the other more than 10 garment enterprises are basically more than half of men.

Clothing processing points increased, women workers rush to catch up

As Yu Yantao said, the clothing and textile industry is in the traditional sense.

So, where are the women workers? "The women who left may have gone to other clothing factories."

Gong Lili, a woman worker, said that it would be easier to learn the technology and find the same job. Most girls wanted to stay away from home, and some of them stayed directly at the clothing processing point of their hometown.

Most of the workers in the workshop are in Linyi and Henan.

Yu Yantao said that over the past few years, there were more clothes processing points there, some of which were workers who had saved enough money to go back to their homes. "A simple knitted underwear production line invested 100 thousand yuan is enough. It is easier to recruit people than we are, and now many people are not coming out."

He said that in a few years, the growth of these processing points will lead to greater competition.

Women workers are becoming more and more difficult to recruit, so they can not recruit more men. But the increase of male workers also brings worries, because the mobility of male workers is too large.

Ann director is worried about this. "The number of Xiaomi here is more than that of other industries. After all, some boys come and do not work well. They are busy talking about their subjects." this is not the case. The director of the factory said he was afraid that two people would leave together. "Now we are recruiting people. It is difficult to recruit. We will be even worse if this happens."

She said that this has happened before.

At 4 p.m. on February 21st, three young guys from Heze applied for a job in the factory. The director of the factory did not want it. She said, "these young people are not stable at first sight. They will not stay long."

The director of the factory said that men could not do much work for a long time. "This job is a time consuming exercise. Dry sewing has to sit for a long time, and few male workers do it for a lifetime."

The 6 production line only opened 3.

On the same day, the reporter saw in the Chuangxing garment production workshop that only 3 of the 6 production lines in the workshop were opened, and the director of the factory said that when the usual order was placed, all the 6 production lines had to work together.

According to Yu Yantao, from the beginning of last year, orders in Europe and the United States were 30% less than before, and customers were also reduced by 30% to 50%. "Some customers have given us a very low price, directly saying that if we can't do it, we will go to Southeast Asia."

According to his understanding, the wages of workers in Vietnam are also 400 yuan to 500 yuan. "Our salary here has exceeded 2000 yuan, and we are losing money."

So far, he said, the orders received by the company account for only 1/3 of the same period in previous years.

Recently, with the rising price of raw materials such as cotton yarn and domestic wages, the cost of production has been increasing.

In recent years, the RMB exchange rate has been rising, coupled with the fierce competition in the industry and the export shortage caused by the European debt crisis, the situation of knitting foreign trade enterprises like Chuangxing clothing will face more severe situation.

For the future plan, in Yan Tao, said the company is communicating with some of its original customers, hoping to continue to cooperate. "Really not, we also consider turning to domestic sales, but the domestic market is also not good to do, competition is more intense."

Qingdao textile has the reputation of "Shang Qingtian" (Shanghai, Qingdao and Tianjin three textile bases), but Qingdao's textile and garment enterprises are suffering from labor pains.

"Textile and garment enterprises should change the situation of simple processing, increase the added value of the products, and offset the difficulties encountered by the workers through the high profits of other links."

Zheng Mingmei, Secretary General of Qingdao textile and Garment Association, said.

The boys in the workshop

Wang Yong: much easier than before.

The dry sewing Wang Yonggang came to the factory for a few days. His job now was to sew the label on the clothes.

Standing 1.75 meters tall, he stooped to sit in front of the sewing machine and remained in a position for half an hour to straighten up and rest.

"This is really a delicate job. We must calm down and do it slowly."

Wang Yong said with a pair of scissors, he cut a trademark along the dashed line that he had painted in advance. He cut it very slowly. The scissors seemed to be not very obedient in his hands.

Then, he aligned the trademark and put it on the waist of a pair of trousers that had been sewn up.

Then the trouser waist is slowly spread out under the needle of the sewing machine, and the sewing machine is sewn up.

Wang Yong said that in the past few years he had been working in Xinjiang, installing ventilation pipes and so on. "That work has made more money than this activity, but it has also been much more tired."

For this job, Wang Yong feels "at least he can learn a technology".

Wang Yong said he got up from 6:40 to 6:50 in the morning, and went to work and commuting. Sometimes he worked overtime at 9 in the evening.

Wang Yong's hometown is in Dezhou, and his girlfriend is in Dezhou. "I plan to get married in these one or two years". Wang Yong said that when he came, the company said that the basic salary of the salary was 1700 yuan. "What is the actual situation? I don't know. I will go back to my hometown if the treatment is bad."

Chen Houkao:

I want to find a daughter-in-law.

In February 21st, after 90, Chen Hou Kao sat in an open production line in the processing workshop. He just came over that day. He can't work on the machine now. He is practicing sewing machines, with some handkerchiefs and mosquito nets beside him as exercise materials.

"The man in charge said I had to train for a month". Chen Hou took a handkerchief in his left hand. He took a pair of scissors in his right hand and spread his handkerchief under the machine. After he started the machine, he also used his hand to hold it. "This work is not easy to do."

He sighed with emotion.

Xiao Chen graduated last year. He read the mechanical and electrical specialty of Weifang University. "This job is not up to my major, and I have to start from scratch," he said.

He was a little shy about the reasons for choosing this job. "I think there are many girls here. I want to come to this job and find a girl friend by the way.

From this point of view, girls do not imagine much, but boys do a lot.

After that, he laughed.

"Now we are sleeping in two beds."

Xiao Chen said humorously.

Their dormitory is 6 people, and now only 3 people live.

Like Xiao Chen, there are two young men practicing. Even if no one around him is supervising them, they are not lazy.

Wang Tao:

You can learn technology and find life easier.

Wang Tao, 20, had been working in the workshop since 2010. "When he came here for three months, he practiced a sewing machine."

"At that time, the wages were low, which was 1700 yuan, and now we add up to 2000 yuan."

He had stitched up a pink kid's jacket and said, "this is not the most troublesome thing. When some clothes are sewn up, you have to stitch a trademark here." he turned over a dress and pointed to the collar.

During the conversation, all the clothes stacked beside him were all sewn up.

He took a notebook placed on the edge of the sewing machine, wrote several numbers on the top with his pen, and finally wrote a "390".

"Remember your account, there is a number."

Wang Tao said that their wages were piecework, and at the beginning they were very slow. They also sewed 300 pieces a day, and then they worked faster. They could sew more than 550 pieces more.

After that, he got up and picked up a bag of clothes. He was busy lifting his head.

Wang Tao's family is from Jiangsu. He came to Qingdao with his relatives. He worked as a waiter in his hometown before.

Wang Tao said his parents were not very willing to work, "they said it was a job for the girl, and the boy did nothing."

Wang Tao said that sometimes he thinks so, but he thinks that this activity can learn some skills, and it will be easier to find a job later.