"What, strike!"

An amazing news came from distant South America to the headquarters of Hanhua Group in Xunyang, which shocked Lin Zhenhua and other senior officials of the company.

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

"Yongqun, don't be anxious, just say it slowly. Strike... is not a great thing. Once it is handled, it will be fine." Lin Zhenhua had to comfort Zhao Yongqun first, although he was also anxious.

After several months of hard construction, the Hanhua mining area of ​​Mutong Iron Mine in China has been successfully put into operation. With the heavy-duty railway not fully opened to traffic, Hanhua established a transport team of 1,000 large trucks in Bolivia to transport the railway relay with the railway, transporting the iron ore produced in the mining area to the port of Antofagasta in Chile and then loading it back to China.

Although the production capacity of Mutong Iron Mine is far from meeting domestic market demand, the effect of its production has been shown. After hearing that China has obtained 50% of the mining rights of Mutong Iron Mine and invested huge investment in development, BHP Billiton and Vale finally lowered their heads and sat back at the negotiating table, and promised to lower the price increase from 58% that it had originally insisted to 22%. In addition, the two companies also promised that if the shipping cost does not increase significantly in the next year, the price will automatically be postponed to 2005.

When the news came back to China, all the steel companies across the country were relieved. The bosses of several largest steel companies made an appointment to come to Xunyang and chatted with Lin Zhenhua. At the table, each company readily agreed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in funds to invest in Hanhua Mining Company. Everyone learned lessons from the bloody facts and knew the importance of mastering resources.

The National Development and Reform Commission also got inspired by this incident and quickly formulated a strategy to acquire mineral resources worldwide. For a time, Chinese companies rushed to the world like hunting dogs and launched a vigorous land enclosure movement. In 2004, as long as there are minerals in the world, there will be Chinese companies, and even those lands that have not yet been explored were bought in advance by Chinese companies, and then they sent exploration teams to search for treasures buried under foreign lands inch by inch.

Regarding China's global seizing resources, Western media used the term "resource monster" to describe it. Commentators said: In human history, the rise of any industrial country is accompanied by the plunder of global resources, and China's rise is no exception. Although this plunder seems a little peaceful, it is the largest in human history - perhaps the last.

With the globalized resource mining movement, various frictions have followed one after another. In some countries, local residents hold rallies and marches to protest Chinese companies' exploitation of their resources and damage the local environment due to mining. In other countries, Chinese-funded enterprises do not pay attention to labor protection in mining, causing casualties among local miners and causing considerable disputes.

It has to be admitted that many companies that go abroad to develop resources have not very high management level and employee quality. Various bad problems that have occurred in China have also been brought abroad, and sometimes even triggered serious confrontation between local residents and Chinese-funded enterprises. For such matters, the country can only take the approach of making up for the failure. Some officials in charge of overseas affairs run around like firefighters, extinguished one place, and hurried to another place.

In contrast, Hanhua's dozens of mines overseas are worry-free. Hanhua's internal management is very strict and the treatment of foreign workers is relatively generous. Therefore, in various mines in Hanhua, the relationship between foreign employees and Chinese managers is often relatively harmonious, so that various contradictions will not accumulate and lead to conflicts.

The only thing that made Lin Zhenhua and Xiang Zhe feel uneasy was the Mutong Iron Mine. The fact that this mine had a bit of a congenital deficiency was the local miners used in the mine. Half of them came from the original mine. Hanhua purchased the mining rights from the original mine owner and had to accept these miners.

Due to the huge pressure on the iron ore market, Hanhua did not have enough time to rectify the miner team, so he could only gradually run-in while producing. Since the Mutong Iron Mine was put into production, various small conflicts between workers and investors have occurred countless times. Today, a large-scale strike movement has finally erupted.

Strikes are commonplace for companies in Western countries. Lin Zhenhua has contacted many Western business owners, and they are also helpless when talking about strikes. Workers demand salary increases and will use strikes; workers demand improvements in working conditions, and will also use strikes; the most annoying thing is that sometimes workers just feel unhappy and will also use the excuse to support a matter that is unrelated to each other, and announce a strike for four hours or a day. In short, it is to let the boss look at his face.

As there were too many strikes, Western business owners took this matter indifferent. When workers wanted to strike, they accepted that as long as workers could remember to turn off the power switches and other things before leaving the factory. When the workers became more prosperous tomorrow and wanted to come back to work, the boss also smiled and welcomed everyone back, as if nothing was wrong.

This calm state is limited to Western business owners. Lin Zhenhua is an entrepreneur from New China born under the Hongqian Banner. He has never seen a strike since he was a child. So when he heard Zhao Yongqun say that the workers in Mutong Iron Mine were on strike, he was frightened. Fortunately, he still remembers that he is the boss of the company and cannot lose his chain at this time, so he can only be calm and ask Zhao Yongqun about the cause and effect of the matter.

Zhao Yongqun, who was not good at engaging in his language skills, called his deputy Fang Lei over and asked him to report to Lin Zhenhua and Xiang Zhe in detail on the phone. Fang Lei said this and Lin Zhenhua and Xiang Zhe looked at each other, really not knowing what to say.

It turned out that the matter was very simple. Hanhua invested in the construction of Mutong Iron Mine. Naturally, he brought his own set of management rules and regulations, such as three elders and four strict ones, those who should know and know. Considering that the discipline of local miners cannot be compared with those of domestic employees, these rules and regulations were even discounted when they were implemented, which is considered as following the local customs.

However, this kind of discounted rules and regulations still caused strong dissatisfaction among local miners in Bolivia. The miners' union found representatives of Zhao Yongqun and other investors and made solemn negotiations on the terms of "inhumanity" and "insufficient freedom" in the rules and regulations. The requests they put forward were summarized in Zhao Yongqun's words. There are two items: First, work as little as possible; second, pay as much money as possible.

The miners' union was established as early as the original mine. Hanhua accepted the original workers and naturally accepted the union. Lin Zhenhua felt something was wrong when he first heard that the miners had a union. He tried to ask Fang Lei to find a way to reorganize the union and add some "sand" into it, but it was not successful in the end. The internal organization was quite strict and he did not obey the arrangements of your capital.

Based on Zhao Yongqun's temper, he immediately wanted to get angry with these union representatives. I invited you to work, not to hire a group of old men to serve. Mutong Iron Mine is a fully mechanized mining area. The job of workers is to sit in the cockpit to operate various mining machinery, which cannot be exposed to the sun or rain. The salary they receive is the highest according to local standards. If you are willing to do more, there will be overtime pay and bonuses. The same working conditions and treatment, if placed in China, I don't know how many people will snatch it, but these Bolivian miners are still picking and bargaining.

In fact, there are not many local workers in Bolivia who are willing to do such work. The local economy is not developed enough, the unemployment rate is very high, and there are many people who want to work in the mines. But the problem is that the miners that Hanhua has accepted cannot be fired. It is equivalent to a group of employees who have iron rice bowls, but they are all lazy and arrogant.

There was no way, Hanhua's labor department had to repeatedly negotiate with the trade union representatives and put several restrictions on each rule. In Fang Lei's words, it had basically reached the point of losing power and humiliating the country. The trade union men won a great victory in the negotiations and returned happily. After the miners drank beer, they finally started working.

There is no need to explain the various small frictions that occur in work. The grassroots managers sent from Hanhua were selected by thousands of people. They have good abilities, good tempers, and when they encounter various troubles, they can still find ways to solve them. However, something that happened yesterday finally exceeded the upper limit that the company can tolerate, and thus, the conflict broke out.

The reason for the incident was that a local driver who drove a mine truck got off work on time, which sounded ridiculous.

It is absolutely true to get off work on time. Among the requests made by the trade union to the investors, there is a policy that prohibits companies from extending workers' working hours without reason, and workers' right to get off work on time must be guaranteed. The company fully agrees to this requirement. People have the tradition of getting off work on time, so let's not use the "ownership" in China to ask them.

However, getting off work on time does not mean that you can slap your butt and leave at half past five. You have to finish the work you are doing. This is a basic requirement, right? For example, as a driver who drives a mine truck, you should at least drive the car you are driving to the finish line, unload the ore, and then park the car in the parking lot so that you can get out of get off work, right? Even if this may delay a few minutes or more than ten minutes, this is the most basic job requirement, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the basic common sense of being a person and doing things.

But this weird driver named McMikin didn't do this. On this day, he made an appointment with his girlfriend to have dinner together, so an hour in advance he started looking at the watch and waiting for the time to get off work. At 5:30, the mining car driven by McMikin happened to pull a truck of ore to open the gate of the feed yard, and the car in front stopped temporarily for some reason, and the parking time was less than 1 minute in total.

But McMikin couldn't wait for the first minute. He first honked the horn desperately. Seeing that the car in front had no intention of starting, he turned off the car and left after get off work.

He left, but he didn't expect that his car was blocking the gate of the material yard. In this way, the cars outside could not drive in, the cars inside could not drive out, the entire material yard was blocked into a pot of porridge, and the entire production order was disrupted.

The mine truck is no better than an ordinary car. If a car blocks the door, the police can tow it away directly to clear the road. However, the mine truck weighs dozens of tons, and the ore on the truck weighs 100 tons, so it cannot be towed away at all. The administrator of the material yard called McMikin urgently and wanted him to come back and drive the car away in his busy schedule, even if it was moved to the side. The old man McMikin ignored this and said, "I'm off work" on the phone, then turned off his phone and went to Wushan with his girlfriend.

Once this incident comes out, no matter how good the management has, it is impossible to tolerate it anymore. If we tolerate this time, something worse will happen next time, and the mine will not be able to produce in the future. Zhao Yongqun immediately proposed that the driver involved must be fired to serve as a warning to You. But Fang Lei reminded him that according to the agreement signed by the company and the Bolivian government, these retained workers cannot be fired at will, otherwise it may cause great trouble.

Zhao Yongqun endured it in one breath and finally decided to deduct the worker's salary for half a month and issued a serious warning. You should know that McMykin's irresponsible behavior caused the company a hundred times the salary for this half a month.

But even such a punishment decision that seemed too light to be more light still angered the union and they began to attack the company again.

The leader of the union was a middle-aged man named Canelas, wearing a straight suit, and did not look like a worker, but more like a politician. However, his vulgar look revealed his true identity. In fact, he was just a local gangster. I don’t know how he got involved in the union and became a leader.

Canelas came directly to Zhao Yongqun's office and gave him an ultimatum: either cancel the penalty decision for McMikin, or... we will strike.

Zhao Yongqun naturally could not meet Kanelas's request. If such bad things that violate labor discipline are not punished, how can the company promote management in the future?
Chapter completed!