Chapter 62 Trade Unions

Wang Yongyuan's mine has a very clichΓ©d name, which is called the cornucopia mine, and the name of the mining company is also logical, it is called the cornucopia mining company.

This is the name of Wang Yongyuan's life.

Of course, this contains a beautiful meaning, but in Gu Mu's eyes, he always feels very rustic.

The general manager of this mining company is Johnson, a white man, who has been with Wang Yongyuan for more than 20 years.

In the past, he was a backpacker who trafficked drugs at the border of the United States, and now he is a successful person with an annual salary of millions of dollars.

He was asked to be the general manager of this company for a simple reason - because his nationality is Australian.

This was also a decision to localize the company.

Although Johnson had lived in the United States for more than 20 years before this, his nationality has never changed.

β€”β€”A person with Australian nationality is generally not willing to change his nationality to the nationality of the United States.

He has only been here as the general manager for two years, and he has already become a member of the local high society.

Although the annual salary of millions of dollars is not particularly high, as the general manager of a mining company with an annual output value of hundreds of millions of dollars, this position is important enough.

Of course, he knew who gave him everything he had now, so when he saw Gu Mu, he was very enthusiastic.

Knowing that Gu Mu was coming, he had already taken more than a dozen senior executives of the company to wait at the gate of the company.

After seeing Gu Mu arrive, he hurriedly went over to shake hands and hug, expressing great enthusiasm for the future boss.

He knows how he came to be in this position, and of course he also knows that if he doesn't perform well, this position will be given to others at any time.

Apart from being an Australian, he has no other advantages.

In order to welcome the arrival of Gu Mu, the future boss, he even called the two most beautiful secretary girls in the company over, and asked them to dress a little more revealing and follow them all the way.

These two secretary girls are both white girls, highly educated, good-looking, and most importantly, they are in good shape.

With such a beautiful girl to follow, Gu Mu also felt a lot more cheerful.

- Although he doesn't speak English, and the two secretaries don't speak Chinese, there are many things that don't need to be communicated in words, such as a smiling face and a autumn wave.

Or squeezing when walking.

For this, Su Qi did not show jealousy - she did not have the desire to be jealous for Gu Mu, what she cared about was whether there would be a woman who would affect her status in Gu Mu's heart.

No matter how much these two foreign girls communicate with Gu Mu, they will not threaten her status, so she doesn't care.

The mining company employs more than 1,000 people, and the operation is basically fully mechanized, and everyone is quite productive.

When he took Gu Mu to inspect the mining area, Johnson told him that now they have found a mining machine with better production efficiency, and they want to introduce such a machine, the cost is not very high, and it can reduce a lot of labor expenses, and in two or three years, the money saved can offset the purchase of machinery, but it was rejected by the company's labor union.

"They don't want us to bring in more advanced technology," Johnson said helplessly, "and they are afraid that if we bring in more advanced technology, they will lose their jobs, so they will block it in every way." ”

When Gu Mu heard Su Qi's translation, he was stunned: ", the trade union has such great power, it can veto the company's decision, why don't they go to heaven?"

Instead of translating his words to Johnson, Su Qi explained to him: "The trade unions in these civilized countries will have more power, they can launch workers' strikes, and all the capitalists will not dare to offend them." ”

In China, many companies do not have trade unions, and even if there are trade unions, it is just a decoration.

Nobody thinks that thing is a necessity for a company.

"Obstructing advanced technology into the company, this can only be regarded as ignorance, what does it have to do with civilization?" Gu Mu disagreed with Su Qi's statement, "Isn't this just sabotaging the company's development plan? This is the black sheep!"

"But this is a right given to them by law, and although it is unreasonable, the company can only comply with it. Su Qi said.

Chi Yanyan also said on the side: "Yes, that's it, the manufacturing industry in many Western countries has stagnated, and it is because of this reason that there are better machines that can replace labor, because of the obstruction of the trade union, I have to give up." ”

"Oh my God!" Gu Mu felt incredible, "They can really go to heaven!"

"This is a good thing," Chi said with a smile, "If Western countries had not given trade unions such powers, we in China would not have had a chance to rise." ”

"That's right," Gu Mu nodded, "Our country is not so pedantic. ”

But he added: "But this company is our company, and if they obstruct it like that, won't they make us spend more?"

They said these words in Chinese, and Johnson didn't understand them at all, and looked at Su Qi, the woman who was temporarily acting as a translator.

Su Qi translated Gu Mu's meaning to Johnson, and Johnson said: "I and Mr. Gu both mean the same thing, they are hindering the development of our company." I negotiated with them, and their request was that they could buy equipment, but we couldn't lay off employees, we couldn't cut their benefits. ”

Gu Mu felt even more incredible: "We spend more money to buy more advanced equipment, but we can't lay off employees, so where is our intention to buy those equipment?"

"What they mean is that we can expand our capacity. Johnson said with a wry smile, "Those guys think we can sell no matter how much iron ore we dig up." ”

"Then can we expand our production capacity?" asked Gu Mu.

He felt that if he could expand his production capacity, it would not be unacceptable.

If you can dig up more ore and sell it, you will make more money.

"Now the price of iron ore is very unstable, we have no way to expand production capacity," Chi Yanyan explained to Gu Mu, "because of the de-capacity of China's domestic steel industry and the closure of some steel companies, the demand for iron ore is not very large, and our iron ore sales volume last year was even lower than in previous years, in this case, we cannot expand production, we can only reduce production." ”

"That's a fart," Gu Mu said, "We pay for advanced machinery, dig out more ore, and then pile up there and can't sell it, isn't that a waste?"