Workers: The Darling Of Inland And Coastal Scramble

Where did the workers go?

For Xiangyun clothing factory boss Xiong Yuli, this year has been pretty good, early received a big list, and ready to start early after the year.

But up to mid February, she only recruited two workers.

At this time of 2011, she had recruited more than 20.

This is a true portrayal of the recruitment of enterprises after the new year in Xintang.

In fact, after the Lantern Festival, the average operating rate of clothing enterprises in Guangdong was only around 70%, and less than 30% of workers.

In the related investigation, 38% of the enterprises indicated that recruitment was extremely difficult, 32% of the enterprises reflected the difficulty of recruiting workers, and 14% of the enterprises reflected that the old employees were not working well.

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YOUNGOR started hiring at the beginning of eight, and the staff came to work at more than 7 o'clock in the morning, but there were few applicants.

However, five years ago, it was also recruiting workers at the gate of the factory.

As a result, Yida clothing company simply set up a branch plant in Fenghua, a relatively wealthy labor force in Zhejiang province.

However, as soon as the branch plant was completed, they felt the fierce competition of the local enterprises in Fenghua for human resources.

They once recruited a group of clothing class students from Hunan Zhuzhou secondary technical college to practice for half a year. During the period, the company took good care of the interns, and they grew up very fast.

But I did not expect that all of these students had been poached by a Fenghua company overnight.

More workers began to job hopping.

For example, in Jintan, some skilled workers are not fixed to work in a certain enterprise. Which garment factory needs to go to help, according to the hour salary.

As a result, the "foreman" who has led the "job hopping" of migrant workers has been produced. They often take dozens of people from one factory to another.

This makes the enterprise very headache: "this is a vicious competition! Sometimes add 200 pieces, you can immediately be dug dozens of workers."

Some enterprises say this, so the skills of workers can hardly be improved.

For this reason, many enterprises began to increase wages.

"Three years ago, 800 yuan to 1000 yuan a month can recruit a worker, now even more than 1500 pieces of hands, skilled one month to 3000."

Yao Xi, a financial manager of a garment factory, said.

In fact, wages have been improving.

For example, the minimum monthly salary in Dongguan was 780 yuan in 2009, up to 920 yuan in 2010, and increased to 1100 yuan in 2011.

For example, the minimum wage in Hangzhou has risen from 1100 yuan / month to 1310 yuan / month, an increase of 210 yuan, or nearly 20%.

But more importantly, with rising prices, the rising cost of living has pushed up the expected wage of workers.

And this brings pressure to enterprises.

For example, the morning breeze group.

At present, the average monthly salary of the workers in the morning breeze group is 2500 yuan, plus other benefits such as paid leave, full attendance award, excellent staff award, and labor insurance, which has risen to 3600 yuan.

Similarly, the average monthly salary of a medium-sized enterprise in Yuexiu District, Quanzhou (excluding social security, bonuses and various subsidies) in 2003 was about 750 yuan, about 1500 yuan in 2008, around 1800 yuan in 2009, and 2600 yuan in 2011.

In this way, manpower cost has become an important content.

For example, the latest season of Hangzhou Ben Xin garment company.

Mr Fang said that at present, a skilled worker in Hangzhou can earn more than 3000 yuan a month, and that is not the case.

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Where are the workers?

"Many people do not want to come out," said Lu Xianglong, chairman of the long Da Fei.

In fact, "when recruiting workers in Anhui, we found that migrant workers were being rob by provincial enterprises."

Wang Jufu, Secretary General of Jintan clothing trade association, said.

"Recruitment is really not ideal. Even in Gaoyou there has been a vicious competition. Some companies have offered 3000 yuan subsidy to dig workers, while another enterprise has offered 4000 yuan."

In fact, "the salary level of Anhui Chuzhou is not much lower than that of Shanghai."

Luo Weiming, chairman of Shanghai dragon textile company, said that he built a garment processing factory in Chuzhou, Anhui, where wages are not low.

He said that in Shanghai, a lathe worker can get about 3000 yuan a month, work 12 hours a day, and in Chuzhou, it is around 2000 yuan, although it looks a little lower, but in Chuzhou, workers generally work for 8 hours, calculated from hourly wages, and Chuzhou and Shanghai are basically the same.

In fact, many local enterprises have raised basic salaries at the beginning of the year.

For example, Wuhan's general practitioners and waiters have a monthly salary of 900-1500 yuan this year, with 2000-2500 yuan in technology and management positions.

In Zhengzhou, Chongqing and other places, the remuneration of general practitioners in the employment enterprises has also increased by 10-20% on average.

In the same way, "doing things at home is good, and children can improve their performance."

In Taihe County, Fuyang City, Anhui, from the villages and towns to the villages, this magnificent banner can be seen everywhere.

Zhou Yan, who lives in Funan County, Fuyang, Anhui, chose not to go out after the Spring Festival, and was invited into the clothing factory built by Shanshan Group in Funan Industrial Park.

"Money earns less than a few hundred dollars, but you can take care of children and old people at home."

Mr. Zhang, who is responsible for personnel in Shanshan (Funan) Garments Co., Ltd.

Peasant workers suddenly became the "beloved" of the coastal and inland enterprises.

"The local front-line staff are aging or changing, while local young people are less employed in the garment industry, and the loss of skilled workers in the field is relatively large."

The Secretary General of Changshu clothing association returned to Mowgli.

"Now is not competition among garment factories, but competition with other industries."

Some enterprises say that if other industries get high wages, they will leave immediately.

In fact, the absolute number of migrant workers is decreasing.

According to statistics, the reserve force of migrant workers has decreased by about 6000000 per year compared with the previous peak, and nearly 20 million people have been in three years.

This is due to the result of family planning, and the lack of social security in China, which has become a heavy burden on children, which has resulted in a general reduction in fertility.

And 60 of the last century's work, with the growth of age, is no longer willing to go far.

Now, after 80 or 90 years, the number of migrant workers is increasing due to the expansion of colleges and universities. Some of them have gone to university for further education, thus reducing the number of migrant workers.

This has also created a shortage of migrant workers and a shortage of college graduates.

"In the first 10 years of this century, the labor age of China has increased by only 1%. By 2015, the working age population will no longer grow."

According to Cai Fang, researcher of the Institute of population research, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, after 2015, the absolute number of working age population will decline.

In CAI's view, Lewis's turning point has arrived.

The era of cheap labor has become the past, and China's comparative advantage has gradually disappeared.

But this is not the whole problem.