[Epoch Times September 12, 2021](Epoch Times reporters Luo Ya and Gu Xiaohua interviewed and reported) Samsung Heavy Industries recently withdraws capital from its Ningbo shipyard and returns to South Korea, and will use N+1 compensation to dismissed employees, triggering employees Panic and dissatisfaction. The employees went on strike for days, hoping to get a 3N compensation plan. At present, employees are forced to sign an agreement to terminate the labor contract between September 13 and 18. The employees are still fighting.
According to Ms. Wang, one of the employees of Samsung Ningbo Heavy Industries, introduced to The Epoch Times, employees are still defending their rights, and labor and management are still negotiating. “The employer hopes to give “N+1” compensation. N is the year you worked. For example, if you work for ten years, it is 10 months, and N+1 is compensation for 11 months of salary. “
Another Mr. Zhang, who has worked in the company for 14 years, said that now they have unanimously demanded compensation from 3N, and refused to sign under 3N.
“This is land reclamation, and it is unilaterally cancelled. We can’t accept it. We demand 3N, three times the compensation. Our average working experience is 14 years, almost all around 40 years old. A notice was issued on September 10. Let’s go to cancel the contract on Monday, sign it, and go through the formalities from the 13th to the 18th, saying that it will not be overdue.” Mr. Zhang said.
Ms. Wang said: “The current average salary of Samsung Heavy Industries is about 10,000 yuan a month, even newcomers who have just entered the company get nearly 3,000 yuan a month.”
“It has been known for a long time that the company will be demolished by policy, but it has not been officially announced. This time the employees have already worked to a certain level, but no plan has been made. Therefore, the workers asked the company to inform when it will end and a specific (compensation) plan must be made. Workers began to defend their rights on the 8th.”
Mr. Sheng, who has worked at Samsung Heavy Industries for 11 and a half years, also publicly stated that the company’s colleagues have persisted in their posts for so many years, dedicated themselves to their work, and have excellent business. It’s legal and compliant, but is it reasonable?”
He emphasized, “The average working experience of employees in heavy industry is about 14 years. What does this mean? Youth has already flown, health has passed, retirement is too early, entrepreneurship is too old, and no one wants to find a job. Now there are 1,500 of us left. What should employees do?”
Since September 8, workers’ rights protection has been ongoing for 5 days. Workers rallied and paraded with banners in the factory area. The banner content included, “Samsung is my home, I want to work! I want to support my family!” “Youth, ideals, sweat, tears, and blood are all spilled here!” The slogan most shouted by employees in the video is “I want to eat.” .
Mr. Zhang said that they have persisted for 5 days. They chanted slogans in the factory during the day and slept on the lawn at night. There was a typhoon on the evening of the 12th. Several containers were prepared on site for employees to rest. It is understood that on the 12th, dozens of special police officers arrived at the rights protection site, but they did not clashed with employees.
“In the past few days (government leaders) have not received our employee representatives. Tomorrow (13th) the employee representatives and the leaders will go to talk.” Mr. Zhang said.
There are also many employees who insist on fighting to sleep on the company floor at night. However, many videos and pictures related to the strike on social media within the Continental Wall have been deleted. Ms. Wang believes that the current government only wants to maintain stability and has not come forward to help workers defend their rights.
750 million allocated for placement of employees?Just gossip
According to a report by the International Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Network, on September 9th, employees broke the news that Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea had allocated 750 million yuan to Ningbo Samsung Heavy Industries for the aftermath, and the money had already been paid. However, up to now, Ningbo Samsung Heavy Industry has not announced any information about this matter.
Mr. Zhang said that according to the N+1 compensation plan, the total amount of compensation is only 100 million yuan. He thinks that 750 million yuan can be used to replace 300 million employees.
However, Ms. Wang told The Epoch Times that the 750 million yuan may be used to relocate employees. In fact, it is only a gossip spread by employees and cannot be fully confirmed.
The report also said that Ningbo Samsung Heavy Industries currently has 7-8 hull sections under construction, and there are also super large sections that have not been completed. However, employees have no intention of working, and many outsourcing companies have already withdrawn. At present, some of the workshops that have ended production have begun to dismantle construction equipment.
Ms. Wang also said that currently Samsung Heavy Industries still has some materials here, and will not take all of them temporarily. There are more than 1,500 full-time employees that the company needs to relocate. Previously, it was said that 3,000 to 4,000 people should include outsourcing personnel.
The government’s land resumption news came out last year that Samsung’s divestment was early brewing
According to a government information published on the Internet by employees of the company, “The main tasks of government work in 2021 are broken down for half a year…”, Samsung Heavy Industries has been preparing to evacuate for some time, and the local government has completed the agreement for Samsung Heavy Industries’ 1178 kang land resumption agreement. Signed and overfulfilled the task of redevelopment of 2400 kang low-efficiency land.
Mr. Zhang said that the news of the government’s land reclamation has been spread since last year. Samsung’s withdrawal of capital is also due to the government’s unilateral recovery of the land. The government’s compensation to Samsung is between 4 billion and 5 billion yuan. Samsung Heavy Industries is surrounded by chemical plants, and the government reclaimed the land to build a chemical zone.
However, what Mr. Zhang said has not been confirmed by official sources.
A well-known scientific popular science blogger certified by Sina’s real name confirmed on Weibo that Samsung Heavy Industries Ningbo Plant withdrew its capital and ended its shipbuilding business. There was news last year that South Korea’s Daewoo and Samsung Heavy Industries were preparing to transfer back the ship block construction work originally in China. South Korea.
He introduced that Samsung Heavy Industries has invested and established two companies in China, namely in Ningbo and Shandong Rongcheng. Ningbo Company is the first shipbuilding base of Samsung Heavy Industries in China. It was established in 1995 with an investment of 250 million US dollars. The annual production capacity of the hull sections is 200,000 tons. The products are mainly sold to South Korea’s Geoje Shipyard. It is the largest shipbuilding in Beilun District. Enterprises, the annual export value is about 800 million US dollars. “
He also emphasized that Samsung’s business in China is constantly shifting or relocating in mobile phones, home appliances, and shipbuilding.
The divestment wave sparked concerns and heated discussions
Regarding this wave of divestment in the mainland, netizen Mr. Zhao said, “Dalian Toshiba, Ningbo Samsung Heavy Industries, and Nanjing Ericsson withdraw their capital. Thousands of workers face old-age unemployment. But now the market is extremely cruel, as long as workers under 35 years old are unemployed. Can I still be employed? If you are 35 years old, it is almost impossible to find another job? How can young people have children?”
Netizen “Hong Li” said, “In the past few days, the news of large foreign-funded enterprises withdrawing capital has been constantly reported in the media. It is really chilling. Samsung Heavy Industries withdrew from Ningbo and Japan’s Toshiba withdrew from Dalian. A large number of workers are facing layoffs. Can our economy stand the test?”
Some netizens said that Ningbo Samsung Heavy Industries withdrew, some people cheered on the Internet, the capitalists are gone, and the workers are no longer exploited. “But the workers in the factory retain the capital and have to work to support their families, just like Huizhou Samsung withdrew the year before. No exploitation. Is it just getting rid of the embarrassment?
A netizen who commented on education in Wuhan said that in terms of employment and employee benefits, foreign companies are generally much better than those companies that use labor outsourcing and dispatch these sideballs. Usually, it seems that the addiction to the capitalists on the Internet has no effect. But when there are more people talking about it, someone will take it seriously! Catch traitors and scold foreigners to harvest large amounts of traffic on the Internet, but when capitalists really responded to the comments of netizens, they did not know how this group of people faced the anger of Samsung employees!
The Chinese economist “Lengshan Times Review” stated that following the closure of the electronics factory in Huizhou last year and the closure of Ningbo Samsung Heavy Industries this year, in November, Samsung will close its last TV factory in Tianjin, China, and completely withdraw from the CCP. The anti-Japanese and anti-foreign anti-foreign trends instigated by the Chinese Communist Party will ultimately have to bear the price of the “I want to eat” leeks!
According to media reports, following the closure of the Dalian TV factory in 2013, Toshiba, the former Japanese home appliance giant, decided to close its last factory in Dalian (Toshiba Dalian Co., Ltd.) at the end of September. The dissolution and liquidation process is expected to be in October. Start later.
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