The overall textile market this year is relatively weak, and the attention of all textile people is basically focused on the changes between the off-season and peak seasons of textiles. At present, most companies generally have high inventories and the market is weakening. We still don’t know whether the textile off-season will end next year and whether the peak season will arrive in a down-to-earth manner, but the problems that some textile workers will face have already appeared before our eyes.
High overcapacity and high inventory
Most companies have experienced reduced orders and declining profits this year. Some companies have even gone on holiday ahead of schedule due to a sharp drop in orders and the inability to maintain normal production at the factory! The holiday period is: December 1, 2019 to March 1, 2020, a full 3 months. It can be said to be the longest vacation!
“High inventory” has become a frequently used word this year. Overcapacity has led to high inventories of textile companies this year, with inventories reaching up to 40 days in the off-season. above. The large-scale migration and release of production capacity has led to serious overcapacity. Conventional products are piling up in the market. However, orders from textile companies are not ideal. Sales of cotton yarn and gray fabrics are slow, and it is difficult to collect payment. In order to reduce inventory, textile mills have to continue to lower prices to win orders, and the phenomenon of selling goods still exists.
Spinning workers, weavers and other occupations are included in the 100 shortage occupations
According to the official website of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China, the China Employment Training Technical Guidance Center recently released the “Ranking of the 100 Shortage Occupations for National Recruitment in the Third Quarter of 2019”. The ranking comes from human resources market recruitment and job search data reported by public employment service agencies in 102 fixed-point monitoring cities across the country.
From the rankings, we know that the occupational names exclusive to the textile industry include weavers, spinners, blowroom workers, sewing workers, etc. The specific rankings are as follows:
Among them, weavers ranked 65 among the 100 shortage occupations, and spinning ranked 77 in total. The problem of labor shortage is evident.
The market is sluggish and the recruitment situation may become more severe
Textile market No, ordinary employees and workers will be implicated. Under normal circumstances, the wages of workers in the textile industry chain are mostly linked to working hours or based on output. The lack of orders this year and unsaturated factory capacity means reduced working hours for workers and reduced output.
According to a dyeing factory worker, they normally work two shifts, working 12 hours a day, and earn more than 5,000 yuan a month, but now they have less work. Some machines are not running, so people can only focus on the few machines that are running. The working hours have become three shifts, with 12 hours of work and 24 hours of rest. The working hours per month have been reduced, and the income has also dropped to more than 3,000 yuan per month. Although they have more rest time, they come out to make money. If they can’t make money, it will be useless no matter how much rest they have and there will be little point in coming out.
The first problem that textile factories of all sizes face at the beginning of every year is recruitment. I am afraid that this problem will become more serious early next year. Because some workers have experienced a significant drop in income in 2019, which is not much different from their jobs in their hometowns, they choose to work elsewhere, or simply stay in their hometowns and no longer work outside their hometowns.
High-paying recruitment is a gimmick
Even if textile factories break out every year Recruiting people with high salaries, but the scene of difficulty in recruiting workers still happens every year. In the MediaCorp article “Textile, Escape or Stay?” 》 pointed out:
Recruitment with high salary is just a gimmick, and many strict requirements behind it are almost difficult to meet, such as: 30 days of full attendance, working 12 hours a day, working night shifts, turning on multiple machines, No holidays etc. After deducting absences, quality control fines, and social security, you may only receive 3,000-5,000 yuan per month. Even if an extremely outstanding person can really get a high salary of 10,000 yuan, based on working 30 days a month and 12 hours a day, the average hourly wage is less than 30 yuan, which can be described as real “hard-earned money.”
In addition, there are unstable factors in employment in the textile industry – “In the off-season, people are laid off at the slightest disagreement, but when they are busy, they have to recruit people non-stop.” Many companies have off-peak and peak production seasons. When the peak season comes, they work overtime and earn a monthly salary of over 10,000 yuan. However, when the off-season comes, there is no guaranteed salary, and they may even be fired at any time.
Where will the textile industry go in the future?
At present, my country’s cotton textile industry generally faces problems such as high labor costs, difficulty in recruiting workers, and aging employees. On the one hand, it is the urgent need for manpower as a traditional labor-intensive enterprise; on the other hand, Workers receive wages that do not match their labor efforts. The intensification of the contradiction between the two has left many textile companies in dire straits, and they are looking for solutions: renting out factories, fleeing overseas, automation transformation…
Peng Peng, a researcher at the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences in Guangdong Province, was interviewed by CCTV Said in the interview:
First, you can either engage in intelligence and automation, and replace workers with machines
Second, through corporate efficiencyThe improvement of �� can afford the relevant benefits for front-line workers
Where will the textile industry go in the future? Perhaps after the pain of transformation and upgrading, the traditional textile industry will enter a new stage of intelligent manufacturing. After the replacement of machines, the problem of difficulty in recruiting ordinary workers will be solved, but there will be a large gap in skilled workers who know how to operate intelligently. At that time, perhaps it was the world of skilled workers. </p
