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. What fabrics are hot-selling, what finishing techniques are popular in the market, which dyeing factories have more work, and how the market will develop next year… constitute the topic of this year’s textile people after dinner.
Of course, we still don’t know whether the textile off-season will end next year or whether the peak season will arrive in a down-to-earth manner. We know it, but the problems that some textile people are about to face have already appeared before our eyes.
The market is sluggish, exacerbating the problem of recruitment difficulties
If the textile market is not good, not only the income of textile bosses will be affected, but ordinary employees and workers will also 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.
Factories that have recognized this problem have already taken action and moved their normal post-year recruitment to the year before. It avoids being in close contact with other factories under the severe recruitment situation. It recruits workers in advance during the recruitment period before the year, so that production can be arranged leisurely early next year.
The textile market after the new year is not yet clear, but the problems and challenges that textile people will encounter next year have already emerged one after another. During this period of time before the end of the year, textile companies not only have to rush to ship goods before the end of the year, but also make some preparations for next year.
As early as the beginning of this year, CCTV had reported on the difficulty in recruiting workers in the textile industry:
After the Spring Festival in 2019, the recruitment wave in Guangzhou begins!
However, according to a reporter’s investigation, in this first-tier city, with a monthly salary of 7,000 yuan, including food and accommodation, companies still can’t recruit people! Why is this?
The monthly salary is 7,000, including food and accommodation, but we can’t recruit anyone
As the city with the highest concentration of garment industry and garment processing in the country, garment factories in Guangzhou’s urban villages have also started recruiting workers after the holiday. What is the recruitment situation this year?
Near the recruitment bridge in Datang Village, Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, there is a small recruitment market within about 200 meters. It mainly recruits garment workers. Many recruitment The personnel rode bicycles and held recruitment signs in their hands, waiting for workers to come to inquire.
The reporter found at the scene that although there were many workers inquiring about prices, there were very few interested ones.
The recruitment staff said that it was difficult to recruit workers, and they could not find anyone for more than an hour.
Recruiters told reporters that in recent years, it has become more and more difficult to recruit garment workers. For this reason, they can only increase their salaries and benefits, and some even provide free meals. Live, even then it won’t attract applicants.
The recruiter said that the layoff cost about 7,000 yuan. The one I hired last year was 6,500 yuan.
Applicants said that they stayed up late for too long and were under too much pressure. If they wanted to make money, they basically had to work 15 hours a day.
In this regard, experts said that with the development of second- and third-tier cities, traditional manufacturing workers have begun to diverge, and the Pearl River Delta region is attractive to general workers. Gradually weakening, this will force first-tier cities to transform into high-tech industries and high-end manufacturing.
Peng Peng, a researcher at the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences in Guangdong Province, said, first, either you do it Intelligentization, automation, replacing workers with machines; second, through the improvement of corporate efficiency, it can afford the relevant benefits of front-line workers.If you don’t want to do ordinary jobs, you can’t do really technical jobs, and companies won’t dare to apply for them.
If a batch of products is bad, the loss will be far greater than the saved wages. The training cycle for skilled workers is too slow, so there is a competition for workers.
To put it bluntly, there are many workers, but not many with some skills, so companies cannot use them.
I once observed a company in the general manufacturing industry. Except for the boss and his family, all the company’s employees were college students, and the others all graduated from middle school. They also did a good job in daily computer management.
The company also recruited several college students in the past few years to do administrative management and personnel management, but they just took the “Civil Service Examination” or “English Level 6” books to review when they went to work. I couldn’t communicate with the migrant workers, the work was so-so, they complained a lot, and I really couldn’t use it. The second is hard work, such as transportation. Young people don’t want to do it, but middle-aged and old people can’t do it. I know a small decoration contractor who worked hard in a certain first-tier city for fifteen years and bought a house and a car for his son.
My son now works in a small company, with a monthly salary of less than 4,000 yuan. It is normal for a decoration worker to earn 8,000 yuan a month, but food and accommodation are too difficult, so my son decisively refused.
A good day for those born in the 1990s
The vast majority of rural employees born in the 1990s grew up drinking Coke and eating McDonald’s. When they first came out to work, they encountered the strong protection of the new “Labor Contract Law” and did not care about the difficulties of the company at all.
Post-90s employees will only compare their living conditions and treatment with their boss’s son, and then develop resentment.
It is difficult to maintain this state for long. Our country’s economy will surely face a test.
Many companies offer a salary of 4,000 to 7,000 yuan in recruitment. In fact, it is “piece rate and no social security payment”. Novices cannot get these at all.
In the future, machines will slowly replace part of the human workforce. A friend bought a machine for about 100,000 yuan, which replaced two skilled workers. The efficiency has greatly increased. It used to take a day, but now it takes half an hour. Machines do not need to pay social security, nor do they need “dismissal compensation”. Of course, most types of work still need to be completed manually. But if one less person is used here, there will be an extra labor force there, which is generally useful.
Labor relations are unstable, there is a large turnover of employees, and there are fewer and fewer workers who are familiar with specific positions in the company, so it is a joke to be a high-tech, high-quality, and high-efficiency company.
However, the burden on enterprises is too heavy, there is overcapacity, and they are unable to provide high welfare, creating a vicious cycle. The result is that the vast majority of manufacturing industries compete at a low level. If you spend three years training workers at high cost, they will all resign overnight. For the manufacturing industry, finance, bosses, and workers will not be satisfied at the same time. China’s manufacturing industry has thin profits and a large number of employees. It is still in its infancy. Before it reaches the level where high technology can spread all over the world, it is impossible for “finance, bosses, and employees” to be happy at the same time.
The current situation is: the finances are satisfactory, the employees are satisfied, and the small boss is no longer optimistic. The consequence of a broken chain is that employment pressure skips enterprises and goes directly to various places.
How to reduce the burden on small and medium-sized enterprises and optimize the business environment of private enterprises? In fact, everyone knows that this is the beginning of a good life for the post-90s generation.
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