Fujian is in the sea, and the sea is the land of the Fujian people. Fujian has 3,752 kilometers of land coastline and 1360,000 square kilometers of sea area. Nowadays, on the blue coastline of Fujian, a number of "homes of maritime workers" rise and flourish along the sea, leaving between the ebb and flow of the tide.
The reporter of this newspaper learned from the fourth (enlarged) meeting of the 14th Fujian Provincial Federation of Trade Unions held a few days ago that the Fujian trade union will continue to promote the construction of "homes for maritime workers" this year, focusing on key industries such as marine ranching, offshore wind power, and shipbuilding, and build 30 new exemplary "homes for maritime workers" to promote the formation of a warm pattern of "Fujian is at sea and home is in the sea".
Make a "home" for the "workers" who plough the sea
Drive from Fuzhou city and gallop along the coastal passage for about an hour and a half, and you can come to Tongxin Village, Ankai Township, the "Peach Blossom Source on the Sea" in Lianjiang County.
The "winter ploughing" at sea is busy, and the abalone farm also ushers in the peak period of abalone seedling. The abalone sorting team is lined up, and the fishermen have to pick the abalone fry out of the sea cage before the temperature rises, and put them into the corresponding "size group" according to the size of the abalone, so as to promote the growth of abalone fry and improve the survival rate.
Yang Jianlin, a breeding worker who went out to sea by boat at 4 o'clock in the morning, had to cooperate with more than 30 workers to sort for 10 hours a day and complete the sorting task of 500 cages of abalone. At noon, the workers took turns to rest, and Yang Jianlin would drive everyone to the offshore platform less than 10 minutes away for a short rest.
This offshore platform located in the sea area of "Houcaili" is composed of 3 wooden houses with sloping roofs on the sea, and the big characters of "Home of Maritime Workers" are particularly eye-catching. The Sea Sharing Activity Center, the Sea Tea Room, the Sea Infirmary, the Sea Learning Corner, ......In the homes of employees, water dispensers, microwave ovens, rest seats, emergency medicines, etc. are readily available. The corner sofa in the center of the event is Yang Jianlin's favorite lunch break.
In the past, when I was busy, I had to 'soak' in the sea all day long, and there was no place to stay, so I had to drive a boat to and from the breeding area and the concentric wharf frequently to and from the rest. Today, the "Home of Maritime Workers" located in the breeding area and the center line of the wharf makes it more convenient and comfortable for Yang Jianlin and the workers to take a lunch break.
In Yang Jianlin's narration, today's fishery is no longer the same as when a "mother-in-law's boat" plowed the sea and fished. Tongxin Village's 2,250 acres of sea area not only feeds more than 1,200 local fishermen in the village, but also raises "red" abalone, oysters, kelp and other aquaculture industries with an annual output value of more than 200 million yuan, and also provides seasonal temporary jobs for more than 1,500 foreign aquaculture technicians. Yang Jianlin said: "Fishermen have set up fish farms and aquatic product processing factories, and the 'sea beggers' in the village do not regard themselves as fishermen, but we are more accustomed to saying that we are 'professional fishermen'." ”
During the fishing moratorium, a 'red boat book box' is set up on the ship, and marine industry experts are invited to give lectures and send practical production techniques to the shipDuring the operation period, the convenient services on land will be moved to the sea, so that the services of the workers' homes can also be 'connected by land and sea'. In the view of Lin Lianzhong, a model worker in Fujian Province and secretary of the Party branch of Tongxin Village, the "home of sea workers" floating on the sea ranch not only provides convenient services based on the sea for these "professional fishermen", but also helps many young "professional fishermen" get rid of their identity troubles. Today, Tongxin's trade union federation has recruited 1,300 "professional fishermen".
From the country's first deep-sea abalone mechanized aquaculture platform "Zhenyu No. 1" to the country's first deep-sea green automatic rotating marine fish breeding platform "Zhenyu No. 1", Fujian's traditional fishery is developing towards the deep sea and intelligence.
As of the end of 2023, trade unions at all levels in Fujian have invested 7.5 million yuan to successfully promote the completion and use of 50 "Maritime Shared Workers' Homes", covering more than 50 service workers10,000 people.
Build a "maple bridge" in the "home" on the sea
In the first half of the year, there was still wages, but in the second half of the year, the owner was injured and could not go to sea, and the wages stopped. Chen Aliang, a seafarer from Xiangzhi Town, Shishi City, who has been working at sea in Quanzhou Bay for many years, still remembers his experience of asking for help and asking for wages at the "Home of Maritime Workers" in Xiangzhi Fishing Port. 3.With a salary of 30,000 yuan, it took less than 3 days for "Lao Cai" in the workers' home to help Chen Aliang get it back. And in this "home of maritime workers", there is more than one "Lao Cai" who can ask for wages and defend his rights.
As the first "Home of Maritime Workers" in Fujian Province, Xiangzhi's "home" service starts from "building bridges". Relying on the local fishery association, the "Home of Maritime Workers" has established the "Fengqiao on the Sea" gold medal mediation room, integrating the local civil forces and the professional lawyer team hired by the Shishi Trade Union, and the old captains, village cadres, and old fishermen in the village have joined the ranks of maritime dispute mediation. Since the surname Cai is a big surname in Xiangzhi, the mediators in the mediation room are mostly surnamed Cai, and the employees call the mediators in the workers' home "Lao Cai".
The sea is very different from the land, and due to the nature of marine fisheries, the risk of work-related injuries is high, and the resulting disputes are far more numerous than those on land. According to "Lao Cai" Cai Tiansheng, Xiangzhi has nearly 1,000 large and small fishing boats and nearly 30,000 employees. In recent years, Fujian has vigorously developed the marine economy, and the number of Xiangzhi ships and fishermen has increased rapidly, and the ensuing disputes involving sea and fishery have also increased year by year. "The 'land court' cannot accept cases at sea, and the Xiamen Maritime Court, which is closest to Xiangzhi, is more than 100 kilometers by car. ”
In order to reduce the litigation burden of employees' rights protection, Xiangzhi "Home of Maritime Workers" signed the "Agreement on Building a Harmonious and Litigation-free Fishing Area" with the Case Filing Division of Xiamen Maritime Court, and established a two-way support mechanism and a pre-litigation judicial confirmation mechanism for mediation agreements. In 2023 alone, 351 mediation agreements were judicially confirmed at workers' homes.
And "Fengqiao on the Sea" like Xiangzhi has also been established in a number of "Homes for Maritime Workers", including Tongxin Village. The Quanzhou Federation of Trade Unions, together with the maritime and human resources and social security departments, has established a tripartite cooperation mechanism for the protection of the rights and interests of seafarers, set up a special class for the protection of the rights and interests of seafarers, and continued to promote the construction of the seafarers' union and the seafarers' homes, so that the rights protection effect of the "home of seafarers" can go out of the fishing port and sail into the deep blue. The Fujian Provincial Federation has also stepped up efforts to promote the "Xiangzhi Maritime Fengqiao" model, encouraged trade unions at all levels to rely on the "Home of Maritime Workers" to establish an integrated rights protection service mechanism based on the Fengqiao model, and increased the intensity of the "Maritime Ship Voicepiece" legal popularization service, and promoted the extension of the trade union's legal popularization service to the "Home of Maritime Workers".
The service in the "home" is inclusive.
360-degree large screen, integrating audio-visual technology, presenting the history of the labor movement; Modern cruise cross-border science and technology cultural tourism, presenting the blue sea and red sail ......In Xiamen, the first maritime immersive experience ship in Fujian Province, the "Tuqiang", was hung with the logo of "Home of Workers at Sea" to build a "home" experience of interaction between people and the sea.
Water accidents, to achieve one-stop dispute resolution; Send the teaching on the ship to create a ...... of the sea classroomIn Zhangzhou, the trade union and the maritime department have joined hands to build a "home for workers at sea" to provide integrated services such as production and life guarantee, government service handling, legal and regulatory publicity, and labor rights and interests protection for seafarers, and expand the "home" model of "co-construction and sharing".
offline, "a game of chess" linkage; Online, "one network" is ......In Putian, the sea-related Party and Mass Service Center and the "Home of Maritime Workers" have realized the integration of positions and platform interconnection, and upgraded the "home" warmth of "building a union at sea, joining a union at sea, and benefiting from the sea for all".
It is reported that in order to further improve the "home" service system of the "home of maritime workers", the general manager of Fujian Province has encouraged local trade unions to open up the "scan code to join the union" service for maritime workers in view of the characteristics of high mobility of maritime workers, so as to provide a "home" channel for maritime workers to join the trade union; In response to the urgent and difficult problems of offshore workers adrift at sea, we support the expansion of functions, and provide services such as "four-and-a-half school", summer nursery school and "sea wife" friendship for the children of marine workers, so as to provide "home" companionship for the relatives of marine workers; In view of the fact that the foundation of the offshore employee service team is weak, we should explore the offshore service model of "trade union organization + social organization + employee volunteer", improve the financial subsidy mechanism, and deliver "home" energy for the innovation of maritime trade union services.
We will multiply the 'trade union momentum' to help the development of the marine economy, take the 'home of maritime workers' as the starting point, and play the role of trade union organizations as a bridge in the tide of high-quality development of 'Maritime Fujian'." Zhu Rongliang, Secretary of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the Fujian Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, said that the Fujian Trade Union will unite with relevant departments and enterprises to focus on key areas of marine economy such as offshore ranches, offshore wind power, offshore engineering equipment, and coastal tourism, and jointly promote the construction, rotation and activation of the home of shared workers at sea.