"What, strike!"

An astonishing news spread from far away South America back to the headquarters of the Hanhua Group in Xunyang, leaving Lin Zhenhua and other senior officials of the company stunned.

"Zhenhua, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for the group's trust in me." Zhao Yongqun stammered on the phone, listening to his voice, the seven-foot-tall man almost cried with tears and snot.

"Yongqun, don't be in a hurry, speak slowly. Strike...... It's not a big deal, it's okay if you take care of it. Lin Zhenhua had no choice but to appease Zhao Yongqun first, although his own heart was also anxious.

After several months of arduous construction, the China Hanhua Demand Area of Mutong Iron Demand has been successfully put into operation. In the absence of a full line of heavy-haul railways, GCA established a fleet of 1,000 large trucks in Bolivia to transport the iron and stone produced in the demand area to the port of Antofagasta in Chile and then loaded back to China.

Although the production capacity required by Mutong Iron is far from meeting the domestic market demand, the effect of its production has been demonstrated. After hearing that China had scooped up 50% of the mining rights for Mutong Iron and invested heavily in development, BHP Billiton and Vale finally lowered their heads and sat back down at the negotiating table, promising to reduce the price increase from 58% to 22%. In addition, the two companies have also promised that if there is no significant increase in the cost of sea freight in the next year, then the price will be automatically extended to 2005.

When the news came back to China, all the country's iron and steel companies were relieved, and the CEOs of several of the largest steel companies came to Xunyang. Drink with Lin Zhenhua. At the wine table, every company readily agreed to scoop up hundreds of millions of dollars of funds to invest in Hanhua Demand Company, and everyone learned a lesson from the bloody facts and knew the importance of mastering resources.

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) also took inspiration from this incident and quickly developed a strategy for acquiring demand resources on a global scale. For a time, Chinese companies pounced like hunting dogs all over the world and launched a vigorous enclosure campaign. In the year 2004. As long as there is a demand for production in the world, there are Chinese companies, and even those plots that have not yet been explored are bought in advance by Chinese companies, and then send exploration teams to search for treasures buried under foreign lands inch by inch.

The Western media has used the term "resource monster" to describe China's global resource grabbing. Critics say: In the history of mankind, the rise of any industrial country. All are accompanied by the plundering of global resources, and China's rise is no exception. While this plunder may seem somewhat peaceful, it is the largest - and perhaps the last - in human history.

With the global resource extraction movement, various frictions have followed. In some countries, local residents have held rallies and marches to protest against the exploitation of their resources by Chinese companies and the destruction of the local environment by doing so. In other countries, Chinese enterprises do not pay attention to labor protection in the mining of the mountains, resulting in casualties and disputes among local workers.

I have to admit it. Many enterprises that go abroad to develop resources are not very good at their own management level and the quality of their employees, and all kinds of bad problems that have occurred in China have also been brought abroad, sometimes even causing serious confrontation between local residents and Chinese-funded enterprises. For such a thing, the state can only adopt the method of making amends, and some officials in charge of overseas affairs are like firefighters, running around, extinguishing one place, and hurriing to another. ...Compared with. Hanhua's dozens of overseas mountains are more worry-free. GCA's internal management is very strict, and the treatment of foreign workers is relatively favorable, so the relationship between foreign employees and Chinese managers in various needs of GCA is often relatively harmonious, so that various conflicts can not accumulate and cause conflicts.

The only thing that made Lin Zhenhua and Xiang Zhe feel at ease was that Mu Tong needed iron. This need is a bit congenitally lacking, and the local demand is used. Half of it came from the original demand mountain, and Hanhua bought the right to purchase the demand from the original demand owner, and at the same time had to accept these demand labor.

Due to the huge pressure on the iron demand stone market. Hanhua did not have enough time to rectify the labor team, so it could only gradually run in while producing. Since the start of the production of the Mutong Railway, there have been countless small conflicts between the workers and the management, and today, a large-scale strike movement has finally broken out.

Strikes are a common occurrence for businesses in Western countries. Lin Zhenhua has been in contact with many Western business owners, and they are also quite helpless when talking about the strike. Workers demand wage increases, and they will go on strike; Workers demand better working conditions and will also go on strike; The most infuriating thing is that sometimes the workers just feel unhappy, and they will declare a strike for four hours or a day under the pretext of supporting something that is not related, in short, to let the boss see their faces.

There are so many strikes that Western business owners take this matter lightly. If the workers want to strike, they accept it, as long as the workers remember to turn off the electric switches and the like before they leave the factory. Tomorrow, when the workers are in good spirits and want to come back to work, the boss also welcomes everyone back with a smile, as if they are fine.

This kind of calm realm is only limited to Western business owners. Lin Zhenhua is an entrepreneur born in New China under the red flag, and he has never seen a strike since he was a child, so when he heard Zhao Yongqun say that the workers in Mutong Iron Need had gone on strike, he was scared enough. Fortunately, he still remembered that he was the boss of the company, and he couldn't drop the chain at such a time, so he could only force his composure and ask Zhao Yongqun about the cause and effect of the matter.

Zhao Yongqun boasted that his language skills were not good, so he called his deputy Fang Lei over and asked him to make a detailed report to Lin Zhenhua and Xiang Zhe on the phone. Fang Lei said like this, Lin Zhenhua and Xiang Zhe looked at each other, they really didn't know what to say.

It turned out that what happened was very simple. Hanhua invested in the construction of Mutong Railway. Naturally, he brought his own set of management rules and regulations, what three old and four strict, should know and should know, and so on. Considering that the discipline of local workers cannot be compared with domestic workers, these rules and regulations are also discounted when they are implemented, which can be regarded as the meaning of following local customs.

However, even this kind of discounted rules and regulations still cause strong resentment among local workers in Bolivia. The labor union in need of workers approached Zhao Yongqun and other management representatives and made solemn representations on the "inhumane" and "not free enough" clauses in the rules and regulations. The demands they put forward can be summed up in the words of Zhao Yongqun. There are two things: first, work as little as possible; Second, send as much money as possible.

The labor union of the workers was established as early as the original labor union, and Hanhua accepted the original workers in its entirety, so it naturally accepted this union. When Lin Zhenhua first heard that there was a union for the workers, he felt that it was not good. He tried to get Fang Lei to find a way to reorganize the union and add some "sand" to it, but in the end it was unsuccessful. The internal organization of the people is quite tight. Don't listen to your management at all. ..., according to Zhao Yongqun's temper, he immediately wanted to make a fuss at these trade union representatives, Lao Tzu invited you to work, not a group of uncles to wait. Mutong Iron is a fully mechanized demand area, the work of the workers is to sit in the cockpit to operate all kinds of machinery, the sun is not dry, the rain is not wet, the scooping salary is the highest according to local standards, if you are willing to do a little more, there are overtime pay, bonuses. The same working conditions and treatment, if put into China. I don't know how many people will break their heads, and these Bolivian workers are still picking and haggling.

In fact, Bolivia is not without workers who are willing to do this kind of work, the local economy is not developed, the unemployment rate is high, and people who want to work in the mountains abound. But the problem is that the workers accepted by Hanhua cannot be fired. It is equivalent to a group of workers with iron rice bowls, but they are still lazy and lazy.

In desperation, the labor department of Hanhua had to negotiate repeatedly with the union representatives, and added a number of restrictions to each regulation. In Fang Lei's words, it has basically reached the point of losing power and humiliating the country. The union bosses won a big victory in the negotiations and went back happily. After a drink of beer, the workers finally got to work.

There is no need to elaborate on the various small frictions that arise in the work. The grassroots managers sent from Hanhua were all selected by thousands of people. Good ability, good temper, and all kinds of troublesome things, always able to find a way to solve them. However, an incident that happened yesterday finally exceeded the upper limit of what the company could tolerate, and the conflict broke out.

The reason why it started was that a local driver who was driving a car left work on time, which sounds ridiculous.

It is completely correct to leave work on time, and among the requirements put forward by the trade union to the management, there is such a clause, which prohibits the company from extending the working hours of workers without reason, and must guarantee the right of workers to leave work on time. For this request, the company is fully agreed, people have a tradition of getting off work on time, let's not use the domestic "spirit of ownership" to ask others.

However, leaving work on time doesn't mean that you can pat your ass and walk away at half past five, you always have to finish the work you are doing, which is a basic requirement, right? For example, as a driver who needs a car, you should at least drive the car you are driving to the end, remove the stones, and then park the car in the parking lot so that you can pull out the keys to get off work, right? Even if this may delay a few minutes or more than ten minutes, this is the most basic work requirement, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the basic common sense of being a person and doing things.

And this strange driver named McMykin didn't do that. On this day, he made an appointment with his girlfriend to have dinner, so an hour earlier, he began to look at his watch non-stop, waiting for the time to get off work. By half-past five, the mining truck driven by McMigin happened to pull a truck of stone into the gate of the yard, and the car in front of it stopped temporarily for some reason, and the parking time was less than one minute.

But McMykin couldn't even wait for this 1 minute, he first desperately honked the horn, and when he saw that the car in front of him had no intention of starting, he directly turned off the car and left after work.

He walked away, but he didn't expect that his car was blocking the gate of the material yard. In this way, the outside cars can't drive in, the inside cars can't go out, the entire material yard is blocked inside and out, and the entire production order is disrupted.

If a car blocks the door, the police can directly tow it away to clear the road. However, the weight of the transport vehicle is dozens of tons, and the stone on the vehicle weighs 100 tons, so it cannot be towed away at all. The manager of the yard urgently called McMigin and asked him to come back and drive the car away, even if it was to move it to the side. This Uncle McMygin didn't care about this, and directly said "I'm off work" on the phone, and then simply turned off the phone neatly and went to Wushan with his girlfriend. ..., as soon as this incident came out, no matter how good the temper of the management was, it could not be tolerated any longer. If you tolerate this time, there will be worse things next time, and you won't want to produce it in the future. Zhao Yongqun immediately proposed that the driver involved must be fired to set an example. But Fang Lei reminded him that according to the agreement signed between the company and the Bolivian government, the retained workers cannot be fired casually, otherwise it may cause great trouble.

Zhao Yongqun endured it again and again, and finally decided to deduct half a month's salary from the worker and issue a serious warning. You must know that McMygin's irresponsible behavior has brought losses to the company that are 100 times the salary of this half month.

But it was such a seemingly light-hearted decision that still angered the unions, who began to challenge the company again.

The leader of the union was a middle-aged man named Canelas, dressed in a crisp suit and looked less like a worker and more like a politician. However, his obscene appearance revealed his true identity, in fact, he was simply a local ruffian who didn't know how to infiltrate the union and become a leader.

Canelas went straight to Zhao's office and gave him an ultimatum: either cancel the decision to punish McMygin or ...... We're going on strike.

For Caneras's request, Zhao Yongqun naturally could not meet it. If such a bad violation of labor discipline is not punished, how will the company promote management in the future?

Canelas smiled coldly, turned and left. After 10 minutes, the noisy demand area suddenly fell silent, and all the workers began to strike. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )