Chapter 19 Migrant Workers Moving Bricks

After thinking about it for a long time, my father decided to go to Uncle Zhang's construction site to work! My mother also went to my father's construction site after I recovered from my illness!

I'm 16 years old now, and my sister and brother are 12 or 11 years old. I don't need to take care of it anymore, and I don't have pigs at home this year, so it's usually more idle after school.

After the summer vacation, I was really bored at home, my body was fine, and I couldn't be idle, and I went to Datouze to play every day, but there was nothing fun in the village.

It's long since I stopped catching fish and shrimp, that's what my brother and them play, and I can't do anything except watch TV and catch up on dramas. During that time, what was Heaven and Dragon Slayer, Snow Mountain Flying Fox, and it was a whole day when it was played, I had nothing to do, I just watched TV, and I was bored to death at home!

Fei Fei wrote to me that her family had moved to Hefei, and now she was on vacation and wanted to come to play with me, but her mother enrolled her in violin lessons and studied all summer! I wrote back to tell her to study hard and become a musician in the future. I didn't say anything about my ghost door closing some time ago. Save her blind worry!

I haven't been in touch with Zhang Mengxin for a while, and I'm embarrassed to go directly to her house to play with her! After all, they are still too young, and if you say you like it, others will say that you are in early love, and the influence on her is not too good! The key is that she is too shy!

During this period, a few little cousins and cousins came, and they especially admired the strange specimens and some bottles and jars I made, and they all leaked their little eyes of worship! I told them that as long as I kept one of the drawers I locked was not opened, everything else would be put back in its place. It contained my diary, a Chinese textbook, and a red bracelet that I had scammed!

I called my father and said that I wanted to go to the construction site to have a look, and my father agreed, and I took a few changes of clothes and dozens of yuan to Caijiagang!

My father and mother did not live on the construction site, but rented a small bungalow in Fangcao Garden.

At that time, small Internet cafes had already opened in the streets and alleys of Huainan! I couldn't play well with the computer, and every time I ran to the back of other people's games to watch! At that time, to see which bubble gum people were playing, the villains ran around and fried bubbles, and I thought it was very fun! I opened a machine and played for two hours!

It costs money to play this, but I don't have any money in my pocket, so I'm embarrassed to ask my parents for money, so I decided that I want to work on the construction site here to earn money and play games on the Internet! My mother advised me to go home in two days after I was not in good health, but I was fascinated by the games of the Internet café and resolutely refused to go home, but to work on the construction site! My father and mother were also moved for a long time!

Asked my father for a hard hat, wore shabby clothes, and went to the construction site. I can only do a small job, following a few big workers behind to move bricks, carry cement, push a cart and pull sand!

On the first day, I was tired and had a sore back, but after getting off work at six o'clock, I was still very excited to run to the Internet café next to me and play bubble gum for an hour! At night, I slept on the roof of the construction site with a mat, and the workers working on the construction site slept on the roof in the summer, and the wind was strong, and there were no mosquitoes!

In the following days, I have been working on the construction site, and my father gave me 20 yuan a job every day, and I had the money to play games, and sometimes I was very generous to buy props for 10 yuan cards!

To be honest, it is not easy for us to work in the city as migrant workers, the work is dirty and tiring, especially when carrying cement.

"Migrant worker" is a discriminatory and paradoxical term, but it profoundly reflects our status as a "marginalized person".

During my work at the construction site, an incident happened that made me feel completely aware of the injustice and helplessness of migrant workers!

In one day the weather was gloomy, it rained lightly, in order to catch up with the progress, we had to rush to drive the pile, in the process of driving a pile, the old Wang of the construction team of the next village drove a dump truck to fill the cement, back and forth in the process of the road because of the slippery road surface, the foundation collapsed, he took the car directly into the deep pit. Squeeze under the dump truck hopper!

I and a dozen co-workers immediately jumped into the pit and dragged people out!

Someone died, the construction site was suspended for two days, and finally the construction site boss accompanied the family for 60,000 yuan, which was private!

I suddenly felt that there was injustice and great discrimination in this world!

Our peasants' wages are on the low side, the phenomenon of being in arrears is serious, the working hours are long, the safety conditions are poor, there is a lack of social security, and there are many occupational diseases and work-related accidents. There are no effective and effective guarantees for training and employment, children's schooling, living and housing, etc.

We are at the bottom of Chinese mainland society. We do the hardest, most tiring, dirtiest and most dangerous jobs that city dwellers don't want to do, with the longest hours and the lowest pay.

The current era is a very special era, and it is also a realistic era, because of this, whether rights are protected depends on the economic strength and status of the individual.

However, due to certain historical and practical reasons, the peasants' economic resources are not distributed very much, and their social status is obviously not high, so their rights naturally cannot be properly protected.

In the long run, the problem will arise, because of poverty, so come out to work to make money, if you want to work to make money, you must get good protection of rights, and if you want to be protected, you must have a high economic status, and because the status is not high, the rights you deserve can not be well protected, and it is even more difficult to work, so it is destined to continue to be poor, like an unsolvable dilemma!

Whether it is in the media reports or under the care, our migrant workers are always just migrant workers, the "he" in our words, the "he" who needs the help of the city people, not "me".

The reason for this phenomenon is not only that migrant workers are unable to express what they want to express in the public sphere, but also because there is no conscience or media to speak for them, and even if they do, it will not make much difference.

How many people can be convinced by the opinions of people of conscience? How powerful are the words of the media? Whether they are out of conscience or out of the utilitarian nature of social stability, how many people can really help them?

I have only heard of migrant workers demonstrating or tying up those who owe them wages because of wage arrears, but I have not heard of any "urban workers" who have done such an "incredible" and "lawless" thing because of this.

Because migrant workers are migrant workers, and urban workers are always urban workers, two people of different grades, it is said that labor is a virtue, and there is no distinction between high and low, but when it comes to this, it is not difficult to see that the upper and lower are noble and low.

When urban workers are "wronged," there is "Bao Qingtian" -- arbitration committees, workers' committees, and other coordinating bodies, but when peasant workers are more wronged than Dou E, who can they turn to? Who can help?

This is the contemporary migrant worker, and only when some people can no longer look at it, those "lawless" behaviors are somewhat restrained. And now, the road is still long, and the rights of migrant workers are still serious!

In the rural areas, it is said that "no matter how poor you are, you cannot be poor in education, and no matter how hard you are, you cannot suffer your children." However, in some rural areas, the poor are still educated, and the children are still suffering, so is it possible that this kind of tragedy will be repeated in the cities?

In the cities, the children of urban workers are enrolled in the schools where everyone belongs, but the peasant workers have to come out to work if they want to survive, and they have to bring their children with them to work with peace of mind, and if they want to go to school, they have to let them go to school, and if they want to go to school, they have to face the problem that it is difficult and expensive to go to school. Just imagine, if there is so much money and so much ability, will the peasant workers still be peasant workers? Will they still suffer the hardships of leaving their homeland and coming to the city? This is another unsolvable equation!

Why do peasants come out to work? They are not good at farming, they are not good at being farmers, and they want to be imaginary workers, but when they arrive in the cities, they find that it is so difficult to be a worker.