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The mission of coming to Detroit Bao Zixuan this time is only half completed. Now the signing has been completed. Then what is left is to negotiate with labor unions and worker representatives. Although the United States is a capital society, in the automobile industry, workers are the bosses, and labor unions are the emperor.

Ordinary existence. Not to mention Heiyun, a new force that has just entered the U.S. auto industry, even century-old auto giants like Ford and General Motors have no good methods for union organization.

When the negotiations first started, the labor union intervened, but then they stopped after seeing that Heiyun Group was intending to back down. Now that everything has been settled, the labor union started to stir up trouble again, actually asking Bao Zixuan to increase workers' wages and reduce work.

Time. At the same time, they also threaten to strike. If the demands are ordinary, forget it. Now they are directly asking workers to double their wages and reduce their working hours by one-third. Isn’t this treating Heiyun as a traitor?

No company can tolerate such conditions, and Bao Zixuan did not expect that things would turn out like this. I had only heard that the United Automobile Workers Union was a hateful organization and a bit greedy. I never expected it to be so excessive. No wonder many companies have to move out of the United States.

They would rather increase shipping costs to build factories in Asia. These workers are really difficult to maintain. An entrepreneur actually requires them to do things, which makes many people intolerable. Bao Zixuan is no exception, and on the third day after the acquisition was completed, he

Meet with trade union members and worker representatives.

After the United States encountered an economic crisis in the 1930s, President Roosevelt implemented the "New Deal". With the introduction of the United States and the United States, American labor unions gained legal status and collective bargaining rights. The northern city of Detroit is the center of American automobile manufacturing companies.

The United Auto Workers was established in Detroit in 1930. After the union was established, most workers of the three major automobile companies joined the union. But the problem that followed was that the management of the three major companies boycotted the union. In order to prevent the union

To develop members within the company, the management has found many "scabs" among the workers. These people will inform the managers of the union activities, and the managers will then punish those workers who have participated in the union and those who are dissatisfied.

Punish or fire them.

In 1936, the U.S. economy had basically emerged from the crisis, and automobile production had reached its highest point in history. Among the three major companies, General Motors ranked first in automobile production. Its products were very popular and workers' wages were high.

for Ford and Chrysler. However, the workers were still very dissatisfied. They saw that compared to their monthly income of $1,000, the managers' salary was much higher, reaching an annual salary of $200,000. Moreover, the labor conditions in the factories were very

It was so bad that workers were not allowed to go to the toilet during working hours. They worked six days a week and worked for 12-14 hours a day. The assembly line in the workshop ran very fast, which caused many workers to be injured. In July 1936

, the temperature in General Motors' Flint plant reached 38 degrees, causing several workers to die from heatstroke. The company did not pay compensation to their families. These situations made the workers realize that if they want to improve wages and benefits, they must

In order for the union to gain recognition from management in the factory, collective bargaining must be carried out.

At the end of 1936, the United Auto Workers wrote a letter to General Motors, requesting to negotiate with the company on the issue of collective bargaining. However, the employer refused. On December 28, a worker at General Motors' Cleveland plant pulled an assembly line worker.

After the strike, the workers went on strike. In the past, workers would walk out of the factory to march after a strike, but this time they did not do so. They sat down quietly at their respective jobs after the strike, which gave rise to a new kind of strike.

Form - sit-down strike. The workers also set up pickets at the entrance of the workshop to prevent temporary workers recruited by the management from entering the workshop to take their jobs. At the same time, the workers carefully protected the machinery and equipment in the workshop so that no

It left the employer with an excuse to "destroy company property." 200,000 workers participated in this strike.

After the strike, Frank Murphy, the governor of Michigan, where Detroit is located, planned to use the military and police to force workers to return to work. Before he took action, he called Lewis, the chairman of the American Federation of Industrial Workers, and threatened to use force. But Lewis's answer was

, "I will ask the workers to fight to the end. I will go to the largest window in the factory, open it, take off my coat, peel off my shirt, and expose my chest. If you give the order to shoot, then let your first bullet go in

My chest, the moment I fell, you would hear your grandfather's voice in your ear asking you - Frank, are you sure you're doing the right thing?". Later, according to Murphy, Lewis finally

This sentence touched him too much, because his grandfather was arrested and hanged during an uprising. In the end, Murphy did not order the army and police to enter the factory to suppress the workers, but only asked them to move the union pickets and the company

Hired security guards were kept apart to prevent conflicts. At the same time, Murphy also put pressure on GM's management to negotiate with the union.

After the strike at all General Motors plants, the union also adopted an isolation strategy and did not organize strikes at Ford and Chrysler. As a result, these two companies started producing cars at full capacity and soon posed a threat to General Motors' market.

GM's shareholders couldn't stand it, and they put pressure on management to negotiate with the union as soon as possible to end the strike and resume production.

In February 1937, after a 44-day strike, the workers and the union finally obtained a commitment from General Motors: not to prevent workers from joining, not to discriminate against union members and to raise wages. On February 11, the union announced the resumption of work. This strike,

It laid the foundation for the collective bargaining mechanism of the American automobile manufacturing industry. Through several rounds of collective bargaining, the wages and benefits of American automobile workers have continued to increase.

Looking at the past strike records and negotiation goals of the United Automobile Workers Union, it may have been for better working conditions in the past. Now the union organization has changed. It is more like a political tool for some people to achieve their goals. If the acquisition has just been completed

If the workers go on strike, it will definitely be bad news for Heiyun's overseas expansion, and it will also have an impact on Bao Zixuan's reputation.

Bao Zixuan also knows that we really need to properly improve workers' welfare benefits, but the welfare benefits of American workers are already the highest in the world. This makes him very unwilling, but now he can only bite the bullet. After all, the US Department of Commerce approved Heiyun

When the group acquired Jeep and Dodge, there were requirements that the two car companies could not move out of the United States, and they could not lay off more than 200 workers.

Now it seems that all this is a trap. You must be more careful when acquiring American companies in the future. If you are not careful, you will be led into a ditch. The Ministry of Commerce is on the one hand, and the workers and labor unions are also on the other.

These people have grown up in bloody struggles, and giants with deep roots in the United States like General Motors have been badly messed up. Now Heiyun, a dragon across the river, really needs to keep a lower profile.

Bao Zixuan is collecting information about workers and the union, and the union is also collecting information about Bao Zixuan and Heiyun Group. This is about workers' welfare, treatment and the right to speak in the union organization. Both sides are gearing up to find the most reasonable solution.

The workers hope to get the treatment they want, and Heiyun Group hopes to resolve the matter as soon as possible. The research and development of the first hybrid car is nearing completion, and now is the time when the factory is needed to make prototypes.