Guangdong Chen Shop Underwear Economic Anxiety And See How Enterprises Get Out Of The Predicament

His hometown is in Chaonan District, Shantou, Guangdong. It is an obscure town called Chen Dian.

It's famous in China.

Unfortunately, most people have heard of Foshan Nanhai Yanbu as a famous underwear town in China, and few people have heard of Chen Dian.

In fact, as early as 2004, Chen Dian became a famous underwear town in China.

Previously, the factory owners of underwear factories boldly estimated that the sales and sales of Chen shop bra accounted for more than 60% of the whole country.

It sounds like a spectacular and exciting figure, which means that three out of every five women in China wear bra made by Chen shop.

Statistics show that there are 528 underwear bra production enterprises in Chen Dian Town, of which 23 are above the scale, the number of private enterprises accounts for more than 98% of the total industry, 550 brands of underwear bra, more than 60 patents, and independent intellectual property rights are beginning to take shape.

In 2003, the output value of bra and underwear enterprises reached 1 billion 250 million yuan, and the number of bra workers reached more than 40 thousand.

Chen shop produces low grade underwear, and there are only a few large scale underwear enterprises.

Chen shop will feel anxious at the end of the year and the year after that. The reasons can be explained from my mother's work experience.

My mother is a typical Chaoshan woman. One person takes our brother and sister three people to the cost of going to university.

Where is mom?

It is a typical family workshop. The factory owner is a friend familiar with his mother.

Wages here are so pparent, or even accurate, that they are calculated in terms of one cent.

I remember that mom told me to work hard, and I emphasized that the quality of underwear directly linked to the length of sponge mold.

A low-grade underwear usually only presses 80 seconds, the middle underwear is 150 seconds, and the high-end is 200 seconds.

The corresponding selling price is also marked as 10 seconds, 9 cents, 100 seconds and 9 cents.

Previously, mom's family workshops had 4~6 machines running at the same time, and during the time when the machine pushed out a batch of sponges, the workers ensured that a batch of materials to be pressed were cut out.

Cutting a bra requires a combined scissors 8~9, which takes 8~9 seconds.

Although the production environment of the underwear factory is not very bad, the workers may leave at any time and are owed wages. The boss may not get the order or pay any time at any time.

The two situation alternates and reincarnation, leaving both employers and employees anxious.

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When I was in high school, my mother had left the underwear factory, and she left other factory aunts.

My mother said that the underwear factory had not paid wages. Because the factory owners were their friends and face embarrassment, the reasons for leaving were not directly pointed out as "arrears of wages".

Until I came out to work now, though the workshop could barely keep up, the wages owed to my mother and other aunts were still not in the same year. Only at the end of each year, my aunt pulled up the aunts who worked together before the factory owners. In the name of visiting the factory owners, they talked inadvertently about the arrears of wages, and the owners could still pay part of their wages.

At the end of the year, bosses have to worry about how many workers will not come back when they are gone, and how much wages they must pay to the workers to keep them.

After the end of the year, Chen can often see such a scene: bosses make big red paper, write jobs on the top with brush, ask for treatment, put them on the table, put them on the door of the factory, and put a few oranges on the table so that the passing people know that they are recruiting people here.

Workers are very important in labor-intensive industries. The resident population of Chen shop is nearly 140 thousand. Migrant workers, or 1/4, are mostly from Hunan and Hubei.

In order to retain workers, factories, whether big or small, will press workers one month's wages, or press a little every month, till the end of the year to settle accounts, and there will be a settlement at the end of the year.

This method is defaults by the workers, but because there is no written contract, when the workers need to quit their jobs, or when the boss's orders do not keep up with the workload of the workers, the contradiction arises.

When I came home this year, I asked my mother about the wages owed by her mother's underwear factory at the dinner table. My mother said that the $20 thousand owed was 2000 yuan so far.

My mother sighed that the underwear factory was barely able to maintain it. "After several junior high school kids, the boss stopped reading and helped at home."

Now, my brother and sister have come out to work. My mother still has no time to go to another underwear factory to help her. My mother says that the hostess of the underwear factory is a very good friend of her mother and works freely.

How can I calculate my salary? My mother said it was the same old way. It's not a problem for mothers who don't earn money to support their children at the end of the year. It may not be a problem for the end of the year, but for other workers, this way seems to be impersonal, but for bosses, this way is the best way to stop workers from losing.

A small town in a labor-intensive industry is faced with multiple upgrading of production mode and labor relations.

But such anxiety has been repeated every year.

When I left home in February 23rd, I saw the recruitment posts on the door of several underwear factories near my house.

It seems so old and helpless.