There is still almost half a month before the Spring Festival, and holiday notices for dyeing factories in various places have been issued one after another. Basically, dyeing factories will stop production and take holidays around January 15th. At the end of the year and the beginning of the new year, factory personnel changes become frequent. On the Internet, the author found that many recruitment information had been published frequently as early as November. From ordinary employees to production directors, there were vacancies in almost every position. The flowers were similar every year, but the people were different every year. The Spring Festival of 2017 has not yet arrived, and the labor shortage seems to have begun.
This year’s fabric market autumn and winter market cycle is longer than in previous years, and dyeing factories in various places are still relatively busy in production in January. After New Year’s Day, some dyeing factories began to recruit temporary workers due to worker shortages. It is reported that a dyeing factory in Guangdong is recruiting temporary workers at a high price of 300 yuan/day, which has triggered heated discussions among the workers. In addition, some dyeing factories in the Wujiang area were forced to stop taking orders and stopping fabric warehousing on the 10th because of the shortage of workers as workers would go home to celebrate the New Year after New Year’s Day.
For manufacturers, it is important to be urgent even if there is an order. When there are no orders, if the machines are not running and the workers have no work to do, they have to leave; after a year, if the factory’s performance is average and workers’ wages are lower than the market average, workers will naturally look for manufacturers with better wages. However, for manufacturers with good business, times like the Chinese New Year are not going well. The factory is still busy with orders, but the workers are going home for the New Year, and no one is filling the orders. Even if it is difficult to find temporary workers at a high price, because some temporary workers are not familiar with the production process, the quality of the orders they make is very unstable, and the defective rate becomes high. When many orders are made at the end of the year, profits will be affected by problems of one kind or another. Gone.
For manufacturers, factories will encounter more frequent changes in workers at the end of the year and the beginning of the year. Judging from the employment situation when the market opened during the Spring Festival last year, workers returned to work later and later. Some workers returned to work after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month when the market opened last year. Workers were not available for a long time, which delayed the factory’s resumption of production. In order to attract workers to return to work next year, some companies charter buses to send workers home; some manufacturers also buy tickets for workers in groups; many factories will give big rewards to old employees who introduce fellow workers to come to work in the factory; although many migrant workers will go home. During the New Year, some people don’t go home because it’s difficult to buy tickets. At this time, some factories will organize New Year’s Eve dinners in advance to give employees a greater sense of belonging.
It is difficult for factories to recruit and employ workers, and it is not easy for textile factories. But for the workers, they have their own thoughts at the end of the year after a hard year. Master Li from Sichuan is a warehouse porter at a local knitting factory in Shengze. He told the author that it is very difficult to buy tickets for Sichuan during the Spring Festival. Every year, the little girl in the factory office helps to grab the tickets on the computer. So you can go on the day you grab the tickets. This year’s tickets were bought with great difficulty after several days of scrambling. When the author asked when he planned to come back during the Spring Festival, he was very helpless and said that the time of return was not easy to determine. It mainly depends on the time when he can buy the ticket.
In addition to the difficulty of returning home, at the end of the year some workers are also thinking about their plans for next year, and a large part of this is concentrated on young people. Generally speaking, the working environment in workshops is relatively poor, with cold winters and hot summers. In addition, textile printing and dyeing require night shifts, which is a great test for young people’s hard-working spirit. The work is intense and the environment is harsh. Some people plan to change jobs by the end of the year. In addition, some people are dissatisfied with their current salary and want to change to a better job in the new year.
Now that the Spring Festival is less than half a month away, weaving manufacturers have begun holiday mode, and the atmosphere for migrant workers to return home is also increasing. It’s the end of the year. Fabric bosses, please take away the good goods and collect the money, and give the workers a safe working environment in the coming year; migrant workers, please have a safe and happy New Year, start the new year by returning to work on time, and give your bosses a calming pill.
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