Chapter 29: Strike
The consequences that Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce need to endure to cooperate with the different races are nothing more than a sensational effect caused by this.
Unlike the advertising effect brought by the sensational effect, which will bring higher visibility to the new flying business, there are many other consequences, but it is easy to cause damage to the new flying business.
For example, one of the problems that has been plaguing the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is that there are too many different races employed in the Chamber of Commerce, although it has brought the Chamber of Commerce a huge advantage that other chambers of commerce cannot match, but it has also greatly increased the difficulty of management.
Even among the same human beings, there are group divisions, not to mention that even the races are not very different.
When the scale of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was not particularly large, this problem was not significant, but now that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has more than 300 factories of various magical machinery, and the total number of employees under its name has exceeded an astonishing 100,000 people, both human and foreign employees have increased significantly, and this problem has become more and more serious.
At present, among the more than 100,000 employees of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, human employees still account for the absolute majority, totaling more than 80,000.
Among the other alien races, there are more than 8,000 dwarves, more than 15,000 orcs, and only 3,000 elves, and most of them are not actually under the actual jurisdiction of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Therefore, if you compare purely by numbers, human employees completely crush heteroracial employees.
However, among the employees of the different races, only a small number of elven employees are directly employed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which is negligible, while the dwarven employees occupy a large number of skilled high-skilled workers and even mechanical engineers because of the dwarves' talent in forging and smelting, which is much higher than the status of most human employees.
Therefore, Xu also has consistently high requirements for technology. As a result, these dwarven employees have always been treated favorably in the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
Despite the dwarves' generous personalities. Extremely easy to get along with. However, such special treatment makes many human employees feel a little unfair and dissatisfied.
If dissatisfaction accumulates for a long time, it will naturally explode.
So when Xu Yi returned to the Duchy of Stantin from the Kingdom of Ruersun, he unexpectedly encountered something unexpected to him.
Within the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, there was actually a workers' strike!
When listening to Kennard report this matter to him, Xu Yi's face has always been very strange.
He wasn't angry, he felt it. It was a little too ridiculous for him to be completely surprised.
The treatment of the workers is much better than any chamber of commerce on the continent, and they will actually strike?
You must know that before the emergence of the new flying merchants, the highest monthly salary of employees in other chambers of commerce was only a few times the gold coins.
After the emergence of the new flying merchants, under the promotion of Xu Yi, the salary level of employees of various chambers of commerce in Bangta City has risen all the way, and now it has reached an ultra-high level of nearly 20 gold coins on average.
Such a month's income is almost worth the family income of a whole year of helping a civilian family in Zengnei!
Are they still dissatisfied? Do they want to go on strike in the name of better treatment?
Xu Yi really wasn't very angry, he just thought it was a bit incredible. On the contrary, he didn't even have the idea of getting angry.
Prior to this, Xu had never heard of a chamber of commerce where employees would go on strike on a large scale. They didn't even dare to make trouble.
Because it was extremely difficult to enter a chamber of commerce to get a job opportunity before, it was cherished by anyone.
However, now, perhaps it is the magic industry driven by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce that has given people too many job opportunities, so that they can get good jobs easily, and this will no longer be as cherished as before.
Even if you don't work in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, there are many other chambers of commerce that are also engaged in the magic machinery industry and need a large number of workers.
Almost all of the workers who came out of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are skilled, have rich work experience, and also have various technical points mastered by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, so they are extremely popular in other chambers of commerce, and these workers have no worries about the future.
So Xu Yijing thought about it and felt that this kind of thing was just an inevitability, and there was nothing to make a fuss about.
After all, human greed will never be satisfied.
When given the opportunity, it is understandable that people choose better conditions.
And as the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, in the face of tens of thousands of objects, it is meaningless to discuss the so-called morality and conscience.
Taking the manifesto of a supposedly strike leader from Kennard's hand and reading it, Xu Yi couldn't help but smile.
The slogan of this manifesto, which claims to strive for the same level of treatment for human employees within the Chamber of Commerce as other alien races within the Chamber of Commerce, and the slogan that the Chamber of Commerce treats humans and other races fairly seems very reasonable and completely reasonable, but in reality, it is nothing more than greed.
"Kennard, what are you going to do?" Xu Yi suddenly asked.
Kennard knew that Xu Yi was taking the opportunity to test him, and after a little hesitation, he replied: "I originally planned to meet with this worker leader and talk to him, and we will discuss the conditions. If you can talk about it, then it's easy to say, if you can't talk about it, then consider the next step. ”
Xu Yi shook his head: "This is not good. ”
Kennard was not surprised, and asked rhetorically, "What's wrong?"
"First of all, our chamber of commerce is already undercapacity, and if we negotiate with these workers, it will inevitably delay time and affect production too much. ”
"I can try to keep the negotiation time as short as possible. ”
"This will play into the hands of the workers, who will certainly be forced to agree to some unreasonable conditions. But if we don't, we can't afford it even more than the workers. Xu Yidao. "Secondly, if there is a first negotiation with the workers, there will be a second time, and it will only become more difficult to deal with in the future. ”
"Then Sir, you mean not to negotiate with the workers, but we can't afford to delay......" Kennard frowned.
Xu Yi knew very well that with Kennard's ability, he would definitely not have a proper way to deal with it, but his decision this time was completely different from Kennard's idea, so he directly rejected Kennard's plan.
"I can't afford it. It doesn't drag. Xu Yi glanced at the announcement in his hand. smiled. He waved his hand and made a downward slashing gesture. "All the workers who participated in the strike this time were dismissed. ”
"Huh?" Kennard looked at Xu Yi in shock, barely believing his ears. "Yes...... You, Grown...... There are more than 18,000 workers who participated in the strike! If you want to dismiss them all? Then the production of our chamber of commerce will not only be affected, but it will be completely paralyzed! If we do this, we will lose at least more than 3 million gold coins!"
Hearing the figure of three million gold coins, Xu Yi couldn't help laughing.
"Hey, Kennard. Actually, you've thought about it, haven't you? How else would you have come up with this number?"
Kennard was stunned for a moment, and said with a little cry and laughter: "I just made an assessment out of prudence, but I never thought I would do it." ”
Glancing at the calm expression on Xu Yi's face, with years of experience working with Xu Yi, Kennard judged that Xu Yi had obviously made up his mind.
But Xu Yi's approach was so amazing that even if Kennard would never really oppose Xu Yi's decision, he couldn't help but persuade: "Lord, I think...... Let's be on the safe side, right? There is no need for such intenseness. If you want to discipline some of the workers who participated in the strike, to warn others. If we are targeting only the workers who are leading the trouble, why should we target all the workers? There are many workers who have been induced to participate, and they may not know what they want to do. ”
"You don't know what you're doing?" Xu Yi sneered. "Everybody's an adult, what a joke. Okay, I've decided, I'll do it. Kennard, you're in charge of this, and you'll do the work. ”
Kennard took the declaration handed back by Xu Yi with a bitter face, looked at the name of the workers' leader on the payment, and wanted to bite this guy to death.
What kind of character does this guy really think of? How dare he anger the elder!
Although the elder has rarely interfered in the management of specific affairs within the Chamber of Commerce in the past two years, he has absolute supreme authority in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and as long as he decides something, even Kennard, the CEO, has no possibility of opposition.
But the thought of having to lay off more than 18,000 workers at once made Kennard's head ach in an instant.
Glancing at the painful expression on Kennard's face, Xu Yi smiled slightly and patted Kennard's shoulder as a comfort.
"Alright, Kennard, don't worry, I'm not really angry. I just think that long pain is better than short pain. This strike reminded me that the problems within the Chamber of Commerce have accumulated to a certain extent, and that a radical reform is indeed needed. The striking worker leader was right when he said that there has always been a slight difference in the treatment of different races within the Chamber of Commerce, and it is no wonder that they feel unfair. ”
Kennard frowned and thought for a moment and asked, "What about ...... What are you going to do, Lord?"
"It's very simple, kick out all the guys who have already flown away, and re-classify all the remaining employees. Before, we had set some levels between the Academy of Magic and the general workers, but it was very rough. For example, it is unfair that workers are graded solely by their years. Now I ask for the employees to be assessed in terms of skills plus working hours at the same time, so as to distinguish the ranks of the employees. The better the technique, the longer the service to the chamber of commerce, the higher the rank, and the better the treatment enjoyed. ”
Kennard thought for a moment and nodded slightly: "I actually had this idea for a long time, but the Chamber of Commerce is developing too fast, and the number of employees is growing too fast, so I haven't had time to free up my hands to carry out reforms." ”
"Therefore, it is good to take this opportunity to carry out a large-scale reform. Xu Yi said with a smile. "If it weren't for this, we wouldn't have an excuse for such a large-scale reform. Didn't the workers say that the dwarves were treated too well and unfairly? Well, if you want to get the same treatment as the dwarves, you have to put in the same hard work as the dwarves. If you are not satisfied, it is very simple, just leave our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. But I left and wanted to come back...... Hey, just start from scratch. ”
Looking at Xu Yi's gloating smile, Kennard shook his head slightly.
The elder said that he was not angry, but looking at his appearance, it was clear that he was still angry in his heart. (To be continued......)