Chapter 305 Beating Workers

When Gao Ming drove Li Yufei home, Zhang Yunqi had already gone to Longjing Garden with Wang Guibing.

On the way, Wang Guibing told Zhang Yunqi that the Longjingyuan workers had caused trouble again, causing the production workshop to stop working this afternoon. He added the word "again" probably because the Longjingyuan workers, who regarded the factory as their home and loved their jobs, were particularly active in this regard.

As for the reason for the trouble, it’s a long story.

At present, the first phase of the Longjingyuan Industrial Park in Yunxi Village is under construction. In addition to the staff apartments and office buildings, the rest are large flat-floor factories. It will take more than half a year. According to the established plan, it will be completed before New Year's Day. In the early spring of next year, the old factory will be closed and the new factory will be officially started. This means that after New Year's Day, all the production equipment in the factory will be moved there one after another.

Although Liansheng has not issued any relevant notice yet, the construction of the industrial park is progressing frequently and this matter has long been an open secret in the Longjingyuan factory area.

The employees are definitely resistant and have many complaints, mainly because the industrial park is far away from the city. It takes four hours to go there and back, and it is in a remote countryside where no one lives. As employees of state-owned enterprises in the city, they feel a huge gap, so they are very reluctant to close the old factory.

This situation was anticipated by the top management of Liansheng.

Measures and plans to appease the employees have also been prepared long ago.

Now we are spreading the word to let employees know about this, so that they can accept the policy of factory relocation imperceptibly and gradually understand that the top management is determined to implement this policy, so as to avoid employees being furious when the plan comes out.

At the same time, Li Jilin had held a meeting with the management. He made it clear that the closure of the old factory was inevitable, and then asked the management to talk to the employees privately one by one, count the employees in each department who were unwilling to work in the new factory, and then further communicate ideas.

When the relocation is approaching, a notice will be issued and a mobilization meeting will be held to reasonably increase the relevant salary and benefits of employees who are willing to go to the new factory, and provide food and accommodation, and arrange round-trip transportation. As for employees who really don't want to go due to objective reasons, they still have another chance, which is to pass the transfer examination and be transferred to Liansheng. Those who fail the test will have their years of service bought out and be laid off according to the conditions of Liansheng's acquisition of Longjingyuan.

This plan was decided by Li Jilin according to Zhang Yunqi's opinion. Zhang Yunqi felt that it was already very generous. It's not like he had never been a worker before. He had also experienced that because the company's production base was in the countryside, the office location was moved from the provincial capital Lijin City to a small county town hundreds of miles away. It took most of the day to go home, which also made the employees panic. But the boss had only one attitude: work if you want, get out if you don't! Three-legged frogs are hard to find, but China lacks two-legged workers?
It is nonsense to say that capital is ruthless, but only those who have experienced the whipping of society can understand the bitterness. The workers of state-owned enterprises in the 90s are completely different from the white-collar workers of later generations. The latter are just employees of capital, doing things for money, and have almost no sense of belonging to the enterprise. The capitalists are also very good at exploiting them. 996, people's rich, and 300 hours are their duties; the former regard the factory as their home, have considerable autonomy and initiative, and all major decisions must be discussed at the staff representative meeting.

Of course, the official measures and notices have not been issued, and everyone is still waiting and watching. Besides, the factory’s performance is quite good now, and everyone is living a good life. So although everyone has various opinions, there has not been much movement in the factory.

Until recently, for some reason, many rumors suddenly emerged about Longjingyuan. One of the most serious rumors said that the Longjingyuan Industrial Park newly built by Liansheng in Yunxi Village was just an empty shell with nothing. The big boss Zhang Yunqi drove them to that remote place with the real purpose of taking the land of the old factory area and developing commercial real estate! At that time, even the family quarters might be demolished.

This immediately ignited the employees' anger.

Although Longjingyuan has become a purely private enterprise after the property rights restructuring, in the hearts of these old workers, the cannery belongs to the hundreds of people in Longjingyuan and not just Liansheng Company, and it must not be allowed to be ruined by capitalists.

This matter spread like wildfire and caused a huge uproar in the factory, causing the production workshop to stop working today.

The workers collectively opposed the relocation and the closure of the old factory!

That afternoon, trucks carrying goods were forced to line up in the factory area. The dealers who were unaware of the situation were very sensitive to the various situations at the headquarters and directly called Liansheng's customer service phone, causing a very bad impact. When Wang Guibing and Zhang Yunqi arrived at Longjingyuan, Li Jilin was already there. He rushed back to Longjingyuan from Liansheng as soon as possible to notify the middle and senior leaders of the factory area to hold a meeting to deal with this matter.

A group of employees in work clothes did not go to work but were smoking by the flower bed. When they saw Li Jilin coming, they surrounded him and blocked him directly. Their attitude was not that bad. After all, Longjingyuan was able to be revived and everyone can now have a full and hot meal. This old factory director made a great contribution.

Arriving at the Longjingyuan factory, Wang Guibing parked the car on the side of the road. It was getting darker by then, and no employees were watching the two Liansheng executives. However, Wang Guibing saw that Zhang Yunqi was reluctant to get out of the car, so he couldn't help but ask, "Boss, do you want to get off and say a few words to the employees?"

Zhang Yunqi looked out the window at the group of workers who were noisily surrounding Li Jilin, thought for a moment, and said, "Do you still remember the incident more than a year ago when this group of people blocked the street to petition?"

How could Wang Guibing not remember it? He had a deep impression on him. When their negotiations with Huo Jianzhong reached a deadlock, he used his mother to spread a rumor in Longjing Garden: all employees would be laid off!

In addition, Li Jilin’s promise to the factory workers that a big boss would buy the cannery and relocate the workers was not fulfilled, and suppliers blocked the door every day with banners demanding repayment, causing panic in the entire Longjingyuan.

All these things together were like a spark thrown into a pile of dry firewood, and the whole cannery exploded in an instant. This quickly promoted a series of operations for Liansheng to acquire the Longjingyuan Cannery.

Wang Guibing lit up a Furongwang cigarette and said with a smile, "How could I not remember it? Although it was a bad thing, I felt quite accomplished after completing it. Of course, the means were a little bit bad, but I have a clear conscience towards the folks in the factory."

Zhang Yunqi was not interested in listening to Wang Guibing's sentiments about life, and said, "The last time the workers blocked the street to petition was because of you, what about the factory shutdown this time?"

Wang Guibing suddenly woke up: "Boss, what you said..."

Zhang Yunqi waved his hand. There was nothing much to say about the matter itself. He was more concerned about the purpose of the instigator in fanning the flames and the possible adverse impact it might bring during the critical period when Yang Jiarong was setting up a state-owned holding company.

He raised his hand to check the time, and said to Wang Guibing, "Call the Director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission Zhao Jianqiang and Huo Jianzhong later. I will treat them to dinner at Rongyue Hotel at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening."

Just as he finished speaking, the sound of a car driving by was heard suddenly.

Zhang Yunqi turned his head and glimpsed through the window an Audi passing by on the road next to him. He had seen this car at the gate of No. 1 Middle School about an hour ago.

The Audi drove a short distance and suddenly braked.

Then, Li Yufei got out of the car, followed by Gao Ming.

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(End of this chapter)