The most difficult thing for migrant workers to ask for wages this year is not that the boss is paying the bills, but that the boss really has no money.
According to statistics, the number of migrant workers in China is about 2900 million people, that's a pretty big number.
However, most migrant workers are mainly engaged in construction industry-related jobs, and the income is purely "hard-earned money". Affected by real estate and other aspects, the risk of migrant workers' wages being in arrears or being in arrears for a long time has increased significantly.
Especially in the critical period when 2024 is approaching, the probability of migrant workers collectively asking for wages has greatly increased. And the occurrence of migrant workers' collective wage bargaining, like dominoes, will cause a series of chain reactions.
We are all familiar with migrant workers, even migrant workers, but for their real life and working conditions, people outside the circle basically see them in film and television works, or through some news reports.
Have you noticed that on the Internet, or on social **, or even on TV and newspapers, there are very few of them in real figures, and they seem to be silent, so silent that society has forgotten them and ignored their existence.
Only when they ask for a salary, will they speak "clumsily".
It turns out that a pair of rough hands can build a building that is far ahead of the world, and can also build a super-standardized highway that is far ahead of the world, but it is difficult to type Chinese characters that reflect their demands, and they can't shoot eye-catching**.
China has made strict institutional supervision of migrant workers, especially the payment of migrant workers' wages, not only requiring the construction party to pay a certain amount of security money, but also carrying out real-name certification for migrant workers entering the construction site. All these measures are protecting the legitimate rights and interests of migrant workers. However, there are limits to regulation, and there are places where it cannot be forced.
For example, the project is subcontracted layer by layer, subcontracted layer by layer, and the last worker is randomly recruited from the labor market. These migrant workers don't even know what the people who hire them are, and some don't even have ***, they just know that they have to do a certain part of a certain project.
When a project is completed, when someone is looking for to settle the project payment, it is not even clear who to contact. The developer asked to find the construction party, and the construction party found the contractor, and then the party looked for it, all of which were middlemen who made the difference. Some of them are reluctant to even admit the employment relationship in order to avoid liability.
And migrant workers, there is no decent contract.
The superposition of these problems and factors has made it even more difficult for migrant workers to negotiate wages.
Especially in some areas of the "empty glove white wolf", there is a risk that the capital chain will be broken, or it has been broken, such as a certain large.
According to the author's research, the community construction project in a township has been selling commercial housing for two years, and 5 sets have been sold, of which 3 are in the process of requesting a refund and protecting their rights. This is just a real estate project in an ordinary small township, and looking at it, how many similar projects there are, or how many migrant workers are involved, this is not so easy to count, but it is certain that the number will not be less.
The reason is actually very simple, the house can't be sold, the money can't be made, the developer and the construction party bear huge economic pressure, and even many projects are raised through bank loans and private loans, and even paying bank interest is a problem.
The source of wages is gone, and most developers and construction parties adopt the practice of "demolishing the east wall and mending the west wall", trying to maintain "no collapse".
For example, many developers and construction companies have only one breath left, just like an elderly man lying on a hospital bed, hanging by drugs, as long as it is "alive", but everyone seems to know that sooner or later there will be that day.
In reality, migrant workers' "desire" to protect their legitimate rights and interests is not high, and it is relatively simple. Many construction parties can extinguish the awareness of migrant workers' rights protection in various ways, as long as they are given a little hope, they will also choose to believe and choose to compromise. However, this is based on the fact that the construction party still has money to pay.
Moreover, with the country's attention to migrant workers, there are very few who are really maliciously in arrears of migrant workers' wages, most of which involve some engineering disputes, or the construction party really can't make a "rice cook".
In the face of the problem of arrears of wages, the most common way for migrant workers is to find the construction party to discuss the law, followed by the banner near the construction site, and there are still a few who protect their legitimate rights and interests through compliance channels.
Some migrant workers don't even know which department to go to to protect their legitimate rights and interests, and simply think that they should find a "leader" to deal with it.
Of course, in reality, there are many problems that require the resolution of unreasonable engineering disputes by taking advantage of the problems of migrant workers, and this also objectively exists.
It is only natural to repay debts. Migrant workers are basically the breadwinners of the family, and perhaps the whole family is waiting for his wages to live. It is not the migrant workers that we need to guard against, but those who do not pay them.
Some departments must focus on people's livelihood concerns, hold the bottom line of people's livelihood, must intervene in advance, and it is necessary to intervene in advance, at least let the amount of money owed be given, so that the migrant workers can go home for a good year!
And you can't hide your ears and steal the bell, thinking that it won't happen before it happens, and wait until the problem is concentrated and thunderous, which will be a disaster.