Chapter 1240: Impact

There was a pause for a moment, the president immediately took off his coat, took off his hat, came to his position and sat down.

"What is the situation now?", he looked at the people at the table, "I just learned about these news, what did the City Hall and the state government say?"

Registering a union has a process, and there are some contents that need to be strictly followed.

The union lawyer responsible for legal affairs shook his head, "We were just talking about this."

"The City Hall said this 'labor service agency' is not registered in the City Hall, let us go to the state government to ask. I called the state government, they admitted this matter, but were unwilling to disclose more news to us."

The president supported his forehead, "Then do we have any way to confirm this through other ways?"

"For example... find some officials who have a good relationship with us?"

People in the room fell into silence. After a long while, the supervisor responsible for outreach said softly, "Our relationship with the state government is not very good."

"Last time..."

Last time they demanded to improve the welfare of construction workers, demanded that workers be provided with a work meal with meat every day, and the pure meat must be more than half a pound.

Heavy physical labor needs to supplement more protein and nutrition to support workers to complete work with high intensity for a long time.

Basically, there is nothing easy about the work on the construction site. In the past, the construction site only provided two pieces of bread and a small bowl of stew for each person. If you say these things can fill your stomach, they can indeed fill your stomach.

Filling the stomach is indeed very important, but eating delicious things is equally important. Some construction workers were detected with long-term malnutrition.

The construction workers' union was like a shark that smelled blood, immediately launched an "attack" on the construction sites in the state, demanding that they must provide a work meal with meat for workers.

Even if the cheapest chicken or fish was used as ingredients, the price of half a pound was about ten to fifteen cents (a few years ago). It seemed that this was not a large expenditure, but this was for every worker every day!

Some construction sites often had one or two thousand workers. Just calculating with 1,000 workers, each person increasing the food expenditure by ten cents every day, this was 100 dollars, and 3,000 dollars had to be spent extra in a month.

That was not a small amount, that was 3,000 dollars, and 36,000 dollars a year!

Because some workers were malnourished, capitalists had to lose so much money every year. How could they agree?

It seemed that the construction workers' union was completely seeking welfare for the construction worker group, but in fact, there were many tricks in the procurement of ingredients in the subsequent negotiations. Federation people had a lot of talent in this regard.

Just like the "cheap meat scraps" that the pet sausage shop opened by some gangs said, they were "priceless" materials.

There were more than 350,000 registered union workers in the entire South Yalan State. Assuming that 70 percent were currently working, then each person brought them a profit of one cent every day.

This was an income of 2,000 dollars, and 60,000 dollars every month.

The inability of the two sides to compromise naturally triggered protests and then strikes. Then the federal government also joined in, and things got bigger and bigger. The construction workers' union simply raised more demands.

Not only did they demand to shorten the working hours by one hour, but they also demanded that the construction site purchase more work insurance for workers to ensure that if workers had accidents during the work process, there would be insurance companies to bottom out for the workers.

Spending three dollars extra per person per month already made capitalists dissatisfied. Now they were opening their mouths like lions, asking for more insurance and shortening working hours. The differences between the two sides were very large.

The state government tried its best to mediate and reconcile in the middle. The construction workers' union didn't give the state government face, and the trouble was very unpleasant.

Later, after more than a month of trouble, after the capitalist side made appropriate concessions, one meat dish every day, and ensuring that everyone had an accident insurance, this matter was considered over.

The state government didn't play any role in it, and they didn't have a good face for the construction workers' union.

Thinking of this, the president had a headache, "Then what should we do next?"

He looked at the lawyer on the legal side. The union lawyers had already worked out a countermeasure, "Find out the specific nature of this agency as soon as possible, figure out whether they have business behavior, and the source of funds."

"Now they are accusing us of violating relevant explanations in the federal 'Anti-Monopoly Law'. If we can't find their problems, the law might not support us to continue making trouble like this."

The president felt even worse after hearing this, "Is there no other way?"

"I mean... we can't just do a little thing, and then have to stop and fight a lawsuit with them?"

The union lawyer shook his head, "If the labor service agency is union-natured, then they don't violate the 'Labor Relations Act', and our protests are also without legal and moral support. We can only make concessions in this regard."

"Otherwise, this is very likely to become evidence that they accuse us of trying to monopolize the industry union, occupy industry resources and control the industry, which will only be more troublesome."

At the same time, in Deruixi, some bad and terrible things were happening.

According to the requirements of the state union, these workers without work gathered in the morning, preparing to go to the downstairs of Wanli Group to continue the protest. For them, this actually didn't count as anything.

Standing together to chat, and the union would be responsible for their simple lunch at noon—the cheapest bread and stew.

Then chat again in the afternoon, shout a few times, and you could go home with fried chicken and food stamps in the evening. For those who didn't plan to find work or couldn't find work now, this was undoubtedly a good thing.

Many people would gather together first, and then go to Wanli Group together. Things happened in some small gathering points.

These workers who were preparing to participate in the protest activities just gathered together, and were suddenly rushed out by gang members holding steel pipes and sticks and beaten up!

These thugs holding steel pipes and sticks attacked these people without any reason, ran away after hitting, and didn't give these attacked workers any time to react.

By the time they realized they had to call the police, these people had already fled without a trace!

Even if they called the police, the police came, basically just going through the motions.

A construction worker stood beside the police with his head covered and said loudly, "I recognize one of the guys who hit me, he is called..., and lives on... street!"

The police officer responsible for taking notes on the scene squinted at him, "Okay, sir, I know, I will arrange for colleagues to verify this clue of yours."

He said it as if it were the case, but his face was full of that perfunctory attitude, which made the worker who was bleeding from his head even more irritable.

"Fack, what is your attitude?", he pushed the police officer with his hand.

These workers engaged in bottom-level construction work were actually not as good as assembly line workers in factories in some aspects. Of course, it didn't mean their income. Their income was actually considered middle-to-high in the overall worker income. What is said here is their education level and "smartness". Construction workers were a purely heavy physical worker. They needed to move some things from one place to another.

Then through mechanical stirring, and then sent to the construction site for construction.

This work didn't need them to master any work skills. No one would lose this job because they couldn't push a small cart. This point was different from workers on the assembly line.

Workers on the assembly line sometimes still needed to master certain skills, for example, they needed to learn assembly, and even a little circuit knowledge.

But construction workers didn't need it, which led to the fact that the construction worker group was often the group with the lowest education and the worst temper.

Just like this guy who was beaten with a broken head, he was already full of anger. He wanted to mix a free meal at noon when he came out in the morning. Just after meeting with friends, he was hammered by a group of gangs, and everyone was injured.

His head was also broken, and he didn't know the specific situation of the wound, whether it needed stitching.

If it needed stitching, did he pay for it himself, or did the union pay?

Plus thinking that other colleagues had already run to register for that labor service agency and were already preparing for new work, this made this guy who leaned towards the union a bit irritable.

And now, the police were so perfunctory to the clues he provided. Under the promotion of many problems, his bad temper finally began to break out.

He just instinctively pushed the police officer beside him, cursed a dirty word, and then expressed his point of view—"Why don't you value the clues I provided, are you shielding criminals?"

The police officer was pushed to stagger, and the writing board in his hand fell to the ground. Several police officers around looked over here.

The police officer who was pushed had a somewhat red face. He walked back and stared at the guy face to face. The angry gazes of the two intertwined.

Then the police officer suddenly pushed with both hands, "Are you looking for trouble with me?"

The construction worker who was pushed back a few steps cursed "Fack" again. He was about to fight back but was stopped by his companions.

But it was too late.

Several police officers suddenly rushed over, trying to control him. The two sides entangled for a long time, and finally the worker was pressed to the ground.

Other workers tried to intercede for him, but it had no effect. Instead, other police officers warned "don't be nosy" and "get away."

The worker who was tossed hard was finally handcuffed. When he was lifted up, the police officer he pushed stood in front of him, "Brother, the rules have changed, understand?"

"Next, I will serve you well, I hope you can be as tough as you were just now!"

"Take him back..."

The police officer's words were pointed. Although construction workers were at the bottom of the worker group in terms of technology and smartness, it didn't mean they really couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

This police officer seemed to be hinting to them that there was intervention from big shots behind this matter.

After other injured workers refused the police's inquiry about calling an ambulance for them, they left with injuries.

They didn't appreciate these minor injuries. They were worried about other things now.

Not just them, many worker groups that were impacted seemed to realize that some things had changed.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the vice president's car had been parked outside Wanli Group for a while. It took a long time for seventy or eighty workers to come, which made him feel a trace of something wrong.

And these gathered workers were not like before. They would hold protest signs and shake them when someone passed by, and then shout protest slogans.

They were communicating in a low voice as if they were discussing something. Something happened outside his line of sight.

"Go ask what happened?", he said to his assistant.

His assistant quickly got out of the car, ran to the worker group across the road, first showed his identity, union staff, and then asked what happened, why only these people came.

Construction worker groups often had connections, which was also the most common "individual network" in the society under poverty and underdevelopment.

The less developed the society, the closer the relationship between people, which was a normal social phenomenon and truth.

The more developed the society, the more channels people could use to understand the world and pass information, then the relationship between people was more distant, because they didn't need to ensure their position and rights in the social system through close contact.

The society of this era couldn't be considered developed. Of course, federal scholars and experts believed it was developed. Their views couldn't be said to be wrong. This was a relative concept.

Just like primitive people who mastered fire were considered to have mastered advanced technology among other primitive people who hadn't mastered fire skills, but compared to people who had lighters later, it was still far behind.

The workers hesitated for a while, and finally the person loyal to the union explained the situation.

"Some colleagues were attacked on the way here. Some went to the hospital for treatment, and some were afraid and went home."

"And...", the worker who spoke had a difficult expression on his face. The vice president's assistant looked at the people around.

"Come with me!", he took this worker back to the car. Facing a big shot like the state union vice president, although the worker was somewhat worried, he still said what he knew.

"They said this matter might have something to do with Wanli Group behind the scenes, and some people said Wanli Group instructed local gangs to do it, but no matter what, this is very dangerous for us!"

"Just now those people were also discussing that this protest might not be able to continue."

During the conversation, some people broke away from the protest group across the road and left quickly.

They didn't want to cause trouble, and this matter had nothing to do with them in the first place!

Registering a labor service agency, registering a union, they didn't care about these!

No one stopped them from registering a labor service agency. Everything was the union's requirement. They came here just to take advantage... ===== CHAPTER 1241 =====

No one is stopping them from registering a labor agency; everything is at the union's request, and they only come here to take advantage of the situation...