Chapter 389: 391. Chapter 385: It's All Your Fault 6664

391. Chapter 385: It's All Your Fault 6664

Facts have proven that when people with skills flee to other countries, their skills and craftsmanship cannot bring them too big a change.

At least that's how it is at first.

Lans has a locksmith here; according to his own bragging, as long as it is a lock, he can open it, just a matter of time.

There is also a deaf person; this deaf person cannot hear any sound, but he can speak, only the pitch of his speech is a bit off, not as clear and natural as ordinary people speak.

His ears were fine when he was a child; later he had a fever, and as a result, he inexplicably couldn't hear.

In the years he grew up, he gradually mastered the way of understanding what the other party was saying by observing the lip shape of others speaking.

Then according to these words, he made a response himself.

He touched his parents' throats with his hands, felt their pronunciation, and mastered the pronunciation technique; at least communication was no problem.

This is a lip-reading expert.

Besides these two relatively special ones, there are two teachers, as well as some skilled workers in factories, but Lans doesn't care too much about these; skilled workers, as long as the money is in place, there are as many as you want.

Lans told them the content of the work: working on the docks.

They are all the most bottom-level and hardest work, all physical labor, but they have nothing to complain about.

Now being able to have a stable job is already a great joy; they signed a contract with Lans on the spot.

Until past one o'clock in the evening, everyone finished signing.

This is the first time they have eaten their fill since coming to the Federation; some people cried while eating, and some people asked if they could take the food back because their families were still hungry.

At first, others didn't understand why Lans had to find manpower from refugees, but at this moment, they understood.

Because they couldn't be like those workers, having nothing that could be held against them.

When they thought things were beneficial to them, they would lean toward Lans.

When they thought leaning toward the Labor Union could bring them more benefits, they leaned toward the Labor Union without hesitation again.

But these people, these people in front of them, they must all be people with firm positions!

They want to live, their families want to live; leaving Lans, their lives would be a mess again; this is their biggest weakness!

The next morning, Lans found Qiangni and Daifu and them.

"How many people are willing to return to their jobs now?"

Qiangni wiped his face. "About fourteen or fifteen hundred people."

Lans looked up and thought for a while. "That is to say, there is still a gap of about ten thousand."

Daifu's expression was a bit heavy. "I'm afraid so."

Lans thought for a while. "I have gathered five thousand people here, ready to be sent to the docks to work at any time."

"Before this, I will communicate with the management company; you sign a supplementary contract, and they will sign a contract with you again according to the conditions they gave last time."

Thirty minutes of rest time every day sounds good, but in reality, the working time changed from eleven hours to eleven and a half hours.

Actually, most of the time, letting you rest for half an hour, no one will really rest for exactly half an hour every day.

In work, they would rather finish the work first and then rest; in other words, this last half hour is actually dispensable.

Then there is the appearance of more meat and eggs in the meals, and wages increased by one dollar and fifty cents.

Calculating this way, most workers' income can reach about thirty-nine to forty dollars; workers with a little skill, their monthly income has already exceeded the average value.

After the Dock Management Company got feedback from Lans, they obviously breathed a sigh of relief, and then they began to contact those technical workers.

This time the wage increase range they gave was very large, with the least adding two dollars and the most adding five dollars.

Busy all day, smoothing out some things, next, is to transport the workers to the docks.

In the evening, rumbling trucks ran back and forth between the industrial zone and the docks; people living on both sides of this road were long used to it.

Either the factory sent the produced things to the docks waiting for shipment, or the raw materials just off the ship at the docks were sent to the factory for processing.

When a large group of uniformly dressed workers appeared here, it still made those workers on the docks feel a hint of indescribable feeling.

Early the next morning, when the striking workers were preparing for a new day of strike, suddenly someone told them that the port had begun to restore work.

This made many workers run back to the docks in disbelief!

Docks one to three have fully resumed work; they looked at those strange workers working somewhat clumsily on the docks; even if they were stupid, they knew that this was a batch of people transferred from other places by the Dock Management Company!

"What to do?", when the workers and worker representatives saw this scene, they were a bit panicked!

The Labor Union promised them that the Dock Service Company would definitely compromise, but now, they not only didn't compromise, but also recruited a batch of people to replace them!

Most of the people here have worked for the docks for many years; some have a few years, some have more than ten years, and some have decades!

Although the company side hasn't told them yet that they don't need them, they can feel that sense of urgency!

Soon they contacted the Labor Union people; the Labor Union people were the same as them, also unwilling to see this scene, so the news began to spread, and at the same time, they figured out the origin of these workers!

"These are refugees, all people who came to the Federation through smuggling or other illegal methods; hiring them violates the law, and we will talk to the Dock Service Company."

"If they don't immediately disband these illegal workers, then our Labor Union and the Dock Worker General Union will jointly sue them for damaging the legitimate interests of Federal workers!"

The Labor Union people came to take a look and came to such a conclusion.

According to the current laws of the Federation, there is indeed such a regulation: if you use black households to work, you have to face administrative punishment.

If one person punishes them one hundred dollars, they said there are at least several thousand workers here, which is a punishment intensity of several hundred thousand!

The Labor Union people didn't believe that the Dock Service Company could withstand such a large punishment intensity, so they were not nervous at all, and even planned to collect some evidence before going to find the Dock Service Company.

They also persuaded other striking workers not to worry, because these tricks would eventually be proven useless!

But also at this moment, Senator Kelifulan just finished the call with the President; this is part of the plan.

That evening, the President delivered a public speech at the Presidential Palace.

In view of the fact that the war on the Tanfeite continent has broken out, a large number of refugees from Tanfeite have flooded into various cities in the Federation, causing a certain impact on the original environment of the cities.

Originally, the Federal government should not keep them and should expel them from the country.

But in the spirit of humanitarianism, the President agreed to the limited disposal of local governments to arrange the life and work of these refugees.

But the premise is that the Federal government will not allocate funds.

In other words, if local governments are willing to arrange, they should think of ways to arrange it themselves and pay for it themselves.

If they are unwilling to arrange, they don't need to expel them.

The President also talked about the issue of illegal immigrants; he admitted that he mentioned these problems when running for election, and he is actively communicating with the cabinet recently, planning to pass legislation to provide a channel and standard for illegal immigrants to obtain legal immigrant status.

These news triggered huge public opinion discussions within the Federation that evening, the first time the Federal government faced up to the illegal immigrant group that made important contributions to the rapid development of the Federation.

This also made many illegal immigrants shed happy tears; the air in the Federation is not only sweet, the water is also sweet, and now even the hearts are sweet!

These words that look like they said something but also like they said nothing gave local governments a great degree of freedom.

For example, New Jincheng, as long as the state government does not oppose it, then hiring refugees to work within the state is legal—

It must be refugees, not illegal immigrants!

More people began to appear on the docks to work, and the strike in New Jincheng seemed to have entered a fork in the road.

And with the arrival of the first billing day, some families couldn't hold on!

"We should talk to them; now more and more refugees are starting to replace our work; what if the Dock Management Company fires us directly?"

Someone loudly advocated his point of view, and there were quite a few people around him who supported him.

But there were also people who thought they should continue to resist, represented by the Labor Union and the industry union people.

The Dock Service Company didn't communicate with them either, which made them anxious!

They were afraid that if they continued to strike, they would really lose their jobs.

In the final analysis, the deterrent power of a strike lies in stopping all work; once they can't do this, the strike will become meaningless!

Someone suddenly complained, "It's all your fault; Daifu has already returned to his job with those people, and I heard they also signed a contract with the company again!"

"Why didn't you agree at the beginning?!", he pointed the finger at those worker representatives.

The worker representatives were also shocked. "We fucking didn't agree because you didn't agree?"

That worker's neck was red. "It was you who went to the meeting, and it was you who went to negotiate; you didn't let us agree, so we didn't agree, and I didn't know what meeting you held or what negotiation you talked about!"

The worker representatives were also so angry that they were bulging, just like what the big beard said to Lans.

If they agreed, but the worker group didn't agree, even if they signed the agreement with the company, it would be meaningless, because the workers could not recognize the signature they signed and continue to make trouble.

Now it is actually the same; they didn't agree, but the company forced the workers to have to agree; now the workers instead threw the responsibility to them, these worker representatives; who could be happy?

The Labor Union representative gave his assistant a look, and the latter immediately began to soothe the emotions of both of them. "We are together, remember?"

"As long as we unite, no one is our opponent!"

"We can continue to negotiate with them, or even think of ways to... drive these refugees out of the docks, just like last year!" ===== CHAPTER 390 =====