Chapter 853

Secretary Su nodded.

Uncle Wu was telling the truth; his family had seven children.

Four boys, three girls. A few years ago, only one was working. They all say "half-grown boys eat their parents poor," and that is really the truth. Let alone not having enough to eat, they didn't even have the money to buy notebooks for the children.

This was because the factory had a school; otherwise, they wouldn't even be able to pay the tuition.

Since it was rebuilt into a woolen sweater factory, the workers' lives suddenly became much better.

Of course, only workers who passed the re-examination were like this.

Those who failed the exam were all sent to the service brigade to learn skills.

In any case, they teach everything in there.

Only after passing can they enter the workshop to be workers.

Uncle Wu didn't take the exam and didn't change his job. In the early years, there was a fire in the factory, and because he rescued public property, his arms and face were burned. Naturally, he still served as the factory's gatekeeper, and when wages were raised, he also got a raise.

Originally, he was paid 32 yuan; three months later, his wages were raised by 15 yuan, and he was suddenly paid 47 yuan.

Bonuses follow efficiency.

That month, Uncle Wu also received a bonus of 6 yuan.

Thus, he was paid 53 yuan a month.

It happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, and the unit issued each worker two catties of mooncakes, three catties of apples, five catties of rice, ten catties of flour, and three catties of pork.

It can be said that the workers' lives suddenly changed.

Such a woolen sweater factory can be said to have shocked the entire Beidu.

There were those who were jealous, but even more were envious...

Some people said that before anything had happened, they started to become restless; it's really "not knowing the price of firewood and rice without managing a household," saying that Factory Director Zhao and Lu Qiao were just trying to win people's hearts.

But some people said, with orders coming one after another, the factory is making money; why can't they pay the hardworking workers more wages so they can live better lives?

Others said that the workers in the woolen sweater factory were oppressed, and they had to pass exams to continue being workers. Some had worked for more than ten years, but ended up failing to pass an apprentice, and then this old worker was sent to the service brigade, while the apprentice became a formal worker...

Some people scolded Lu Qiao for bringing that "capitalist stuff" into the factory.

Secretary Su knew that such a decision was not made by Lu Qiao alone; everyone from top to bottom agreed, and this was a pilot project.

As long as one passes the exam and works conscientiously and responsibly, one can obtain corresponding remuneration.

Instead of being the same whether one does well or poorly as before.

Workers who only work two days a month and those who don't rest for a single day a month get the same wages; do you say this is fair?

That kind of "big pot of rice" doesn't work well in this factory.

Last year, after the exam, Uncle Wu's two children both entered the factory. Adding Aunt Wu, who does odd jobs in the service brigade, there are now five people in the family working and earning money, with a monthly wage of more than 200 yuan.

Then you say, didn't Uncle Wu's family's life suddenly get better?

Not to mention that the money owed was all paid off, they also have savings in the bank.

Then at the beginning of this year, the factory also put the construction of staff dormitories on the agenda.

Of course, it's just that everyone is used to calling it that, but it actually belongs to the fundraising type now.

It is said that the experiment in Jiangcheng was very successful.

The houses built this year can solve the housing problems of all the workers in the woolen sweater factory now.

The workers of the current No. 1 Woolen Sweater Factory are the most enviable, and the girls and boys here are also the easiest to find partners.

Not for anything else, just because they earn more.

The noisy voices subsided a lot after the "ten-thousand-yuan households" appeared.

In this day and age, no one goes against money, and no one doesn't like living a good life.

You just ask Uncle Wu—does he like the days in the past when he couldn't even get enough corn buns to eat, or does he like the days now with big lamb-filled dumplings?

Secretary Su listened with a smile as Uncle Wu talked there.

The factory takes very good care of these workers who have made contributions.

It is not a "one-size-fits-all" approach.

And those who entered through connections, were idle, and mediocre were all removed by Lu Qiao and Factory Director Zhao.

Factory Director Zhao was worried at first that doing this would cause trouble; after all, the people who could enter the office all had people behind them.

For example, there were more than twenty people in a data room in the factory department.

Only three to four were actually working.

The remaining few... either "fishing for three days and drying nets for two," or often asking for leave; some couldn't even be seen, but when it came time to pay wages, they would definitely come, not delaying at all.

And these people's housing was not tight either.

This factory didn't just have Factory Director Zhao as a leader.

To tell the truth, if those people really united, this kind of reorganization would simply be impossible to execute.

Not to mention impossible to execute, perhaps even the plan to rebuild the woolen sweater factory would be finished.

Those people couldn't attack Lu Qiao, so they started attacking Factory Director Zhao, saying his son was a criminal; since he was in jail, why could he still be a factory director?

Just the political review part was unqualified. They strongly demanded his removal.

But at that time, the organization also came down to investigate.

Factory Director Zhao had no problems in either work or life.

And his son was not causing trouble or truly committing a crime; according to the masses, this was a "heroic act."

That year, Zhao Zhigang and a few friends went skating and saw a "big shot's" descendant molesting a girl, stubbornly saying that the girl was his wife, and pulling the girl toward a jeep. But that place was remote and there were few people, and the few onlookers were timid and scared to make a sound when they saw this scene.

Actually, Zhao Zhigang was just an ordinary person.

Although his father was a factory director, he didn't have any bad habits.

He even responded to the call to go to the countryside to join the production team.

But after his wife, Hu Dan, ran away, he also became cold.

But this girl was from the textile factory family compound, so this group of people started fighting.

Zhao Zhigang didn't make a mistake; he was pulling this descendant to the side, but the other party didn't stand firm, fell down, and hit a big rock...

Originally, he was going to be sentenced to death.

Although the other party had three sons, this one was born to his later wife, and that descendant's mother made a huge fuss.

But thousands of workers united to report the situation to the higher-ups, and finally, the higher-ups sent a working group down to investigate, so Factory Director Zhao remained factory director and was not affected.

However, Factory Director Zhao valued the rebuilt woolen sweater factory very much.

He felt this was the best way out for thousands of workers.

If it's rebuilt, the workers' lives will flourish; if it's not rebuilt, it will be half-dead like this, and in the end, it might go bankrupt.

Then what will happen to thousands of workers?

He wouldn't let the factory fall to this step, so he took the initiative to ask the higher-ups to resign.

Lu Qiao told him not to worry, wait and see!

As it turned out, it was only three days later.

Those who were preparing to cause trouble all took the initiative to come to Factory Director Zhao, saying they were willing to participate in the assessment, and if they failed the assessment, they were also willing to go to the service brigade.

It was as if they had been caught by the handle.

They were extremely honest, their attitude was not arrogant at all, and they were even in a state of fear and trepidation.