Chapter 260: Turning Crisis into Opportunity
"After returning to the company today, I asked several branches about the development of the trade union organization, and I think we should pay attention to it."
Seeing his son, who was obviously relieved, Fang Xinshan expressed his scruples about the union.
Fang Lang understood that this was the sequelae of his father's speech listening to the trade union today.
Looking at the office where there were only two people, he and his father, Fang Lang lowered his voice and said:
"I've figured out how to deal with the union."
When Fang Xinshan heard Fang Lang's words, he breathed a long sigh of relief, his face was happy, and he said with expectation in his eyes:
"Tell me what we should do to get them out?"
It seems that Fang Xinshan has considered going head-to-head with the trade union, but this kind of thinking is also normal, and no one would be willing to invest in the factory by himself, and there will be forces that are not under his control.
What's more, this power is still a force that is specifically against itself, isn't this a tiger for trouble?
"Actually, trade unions are not just in Brazil, and now with the rise of the big brother of the Su family, it is inevitable that the workers' minds will begin to awaken, and this historical trend is not something we can stop."
Fang Lang shook his head and denied his father's idea.
Seeing that World War II disagreed with his own point of view, Fang Xinshan asked a little anxiously:
"Then why don't we just let them grow in our company and then do something with us?"
Raising his hand to signal his father not to worry, Fang Lang pushed his father to sit on the sofa in the reception area, and said with a confident smile:
"In fact, the trade union organization organized by the Labor Party is simply a cat and a tiger, and their fundamental purpose is not really to protect the interests of the workers, so it is actually very simple to deal with them."
Fang Xinshan, who had just sat on the sofa, was eager to know what his son could do, and his face flushed a little.
"Then tell me what we should do."
But Fang Lang smiled, unhurriedly took out a bag of tea leaves from under the coffee table, and took out two teacups.
opened the tea box, smelled the fragrance of the tea leaves, squinted his eyes with satisfaction and said:
"The method is very simple, since it is not possible to fight head-on, then we can only choose to follow the trend."
Seeing Fang Lang's slow and methodical approach, he began to brew tea, and Fang Xinshan was very anxious.
"Do we go with the flow, and do we join in with it? But we're factory owners!"
Fang Lang glanced up at his father, signaled the other party to be calm, continued to add tea leaves to the teacup in his hand, took a hot water bottle, and brewed two cups of tea.
He brought one of the cups to his father with both hands, and said:
"It's not about joining in, it's about setting up our own union."
Perhaps under the influence of Fang Lang's calmness, Fang Xinshan's impatient mood finally calmed down, and he picked up the tea that his son had made for himself and blew two sips.
wanted to rub it lightly, but the tea was too hot, so he quickly retracted his mouth, put the teacup back on the coffee table, and said with a questioning face:
"Start your own trade union? But how could the workers join the trade unions, knowing that we had set them up ourselves?"
Fang Lang saw the teacup that his father put on the table and smiled, it seems that his father was indeed stimulated by the constitution of this trade union organization today.
Even the freshly brewed tea, without looking at it, put it to your mouth.
He took two cigars from his suit-lined pocket and handed one to his father.
He took out a small cigar cutter from his trouser pocket, repaired his cigar head, and handed the cigar cutter to his father before saying:
"As long as our union organization can get them the benefits they want! If you think about it, we refuse to negotiate with the unions they formed.
But if we have a union that we have set up to help them get the benefits they want, do you think they will join that union?"
After listening to Fang Lang's words, Fang Xinshan pruned hard
The cigar in his hand, as if he wanted to vent his dissatisfaction on the cigar, was still indignant:
"Then don't we still have to be coerced by them to give up the company's interests?"
Noticing the movements of his father's hands, looking at the cigars that were cut by his father a little wasteful, Fang Lang said a little helplessly:
"That's for sure, if you choose not to give an inch now, you can only fight each other.
But in the face of the torrent of history, a hard encounter will only break us to pieces, and there is no chance of winning at all.
If we follow the tide of history and take the trade unions into our own hands, then the initiative will come back to us.
For example, the current demand from trade unions has been adjusted from 12 hours to 11 hours.
Is this an excessive request?"
Without waiting for his father to answer, Fang Lang had already asked and answered himself:
"No, I don't think that's too much to ask.
Twelve hours of high-intensity labor, the workers are very easy to get tired. When people are tired, it actually affects work efficiency very much.
Some positions are tired of work, and even prone to accidents, if an accident occurs, we may not only face financial losses, but also may lose a skilled worker.
In this way, it is beneficial to reduce the loss of the factory and improve the production efficiency of the factory."
It was only this year that Fang Xinshan changed his identity from a farmer to a capitalist, and his thoughts about exploiting workers are actually not strong.
Therefore, it was easy to accept Fang Lang's statement.
Seeing his father nodding, Fang Lang lit the match in his hand, handed the fire to his father, and continued while lighting a cigar for his father:
"Actually, in my opinion, it is the most stupid thing to pay workers according to their working hours.
We should change our thinking, change the original timework to piece rate, set a basic salary and a minimum task standard, as long as we complete the number of tasks we specify, he can get his own piece rate according to this piece rate standard.
Those who can't complete it can only get a basic salary, and those who can't complete the task for several months can only say that they are not suitable for the job.
Workers who want to get a high salary will naturally find ways to improve their work efficiency.
If the workers who are not working efficiently take the initiative to work overtime, we must also clearly tell the other party that we are a regular enterprise and do not advocate overtime, even if you work overtime, I will not give you overtime pay.
Leave the decision on whether or not to work overtime up to them. We can also get a good name."
The father, who took a big puff of cigars, opened his lips slightly, narrowed his eyes slightly, and he didn't know whether he was recalling the aroma of the cigar in his mouth or thinking about Fang Lang's words.
After a long time, he said with a smile on his face:
"It's a good idea, if you change it like this, it doesn't matter if you shorten your working hours by two hours."
Seeing that his father understood his train of thought, Fang Lang also smiled and said:
"That's right, in this case, our own union was able to get the benefits that everyone wanted for his family, while their union got nothing, and of course the workers knew what to do."
Fang Xinshan Xu thought of something, his smile narrowed slightly, and his brows furrowed slightly:
"What if the head of our union is bribed by them, and when the time comes, he will not listen to our command and deliberately oppose us?"
Fang Lang took a deep puff of the cigar, put the smoke in his mouth, gently stirred it twice in his mouth with his tongue, let the fragrance stay between his lips and teeth before slowly exhaling, and then took another breath of fresh air before he said with a smile:
"Since we have established our own trade union, of course we have the right to appoint and dismiss the chairman of the trade union.
In fact, there is one of the biggest advantages of our own unions.
That is, we don't have to charge the workers a fee for joining the union, a union that can protect their own interests and can join without paying themselves, do you think the workers can refuse?
If you can't collect initiation fees from the workers, the union will have no source of its own funding, and the leaders of the union at all levels will depend on us to pay their wages, so who do you think they will obey?"
Fang Xinshan listened to Fang Lang's words, slapped his thigh, the smoke in his mouth sprayed out directly, got up and said with a smile:
"Haha. It's a good idea, let's do it, and in the future, our group's union will no longer be an organization opposed to us, but a department of our company, so there will be nothing to be afraid of."
Seeing his father's smile on his face, he knew that his father's doubts had been swept away, and his mood recovered.
Fang Lang also added with a smile:
"Actually, there are many things that the union can do, such as organizing a small birthday party for every employee who has a birthday.
When the weather is hot, the company sends some food to the front-line workers to cool down and relieve the heat.
Help some workers whose families are in difficulty, organize internal donations, and so on.
Of course, all of this has to be done in the name of the company.
This will not only increase the recognition of the union by the workers, but also increase the cohesion of the workers to the company."
Fang Xinshan also relaxed at this moment, leaned on the leather sofa, and said happily:
"Well, then the head of this union must be selected well, and these good reputations must really fall on the company's head, so as not to be used by people with intentions to buy people's hearts."
Nodding, Fang Lang said softly:
"In fact, in terms of candidates, we can let the workers vote and elect the members of the trade unions at the grassroots level.
However, the power to appoint and dismiss the middle and top levels must be in our own hands.
Of course, the middle level we select can also be selected from among the grassroots personnel elected by the workers, and becoming a middle level union worker can get him out of his original job.
As a full-time union worker, the salary package can also be adjusted appropriately.
In addition, we continue to train them on the duties of the union, so that they know what kind of work they are supposed to do.
Slowly they will start working according to our job requirements.
And they were originally elected from among the workers by the workers themselves.
The workers, of course, would be more convinced of such trade union cadres.
However, we should be careful not to leave behind those who have already joined the trade unions formed by the Labour Party and have participated in many activities.
Slowly look for opportunities to expel these people.
When electing grassroots trade union cadres, we need to make it clear that workers who have already joined other trade unions are prohibited from joining new trade union organizations.
From the outset, these Labour union activists were excluded from the new unions."
Fang Xinshan can be said to be impressed by his own son at this moment, such a troublesome thing for himself, after his operation, instead of being troublesome, it has become a new means for him to manage the factory.
This kind of means of turning crisis into opportunity is really old-fashioned!
"I understand that in the future, we can manage the minds of factory workers through trade unions."