industrial overlord

Chapter 696 Harmonious Bolivia
"What? You want to re-elect the trade union, and the provincial council has to send someone to supervise the election?"

Boniface, the governor of Santa Cruz Province, looked at Fang Lei who came to contact him for work, and was inexplicably surprised.In his impression, mining companies are extremely hostile to trade unions, so why would they directly intervene in trade union affairs?

"Yes, we believe that the original trade union has been controlled by evil forces and cannot represent the vital interests of the miners. At the request of some honest miners, we request a re-election of the trade union. In order to prevent others from saying that our mining company manipulated the election, we hope that The provincial council sent someone to monitor the election process," Fang Lei replied.

"Are you going to elect a union that is subject to your management?" Boniface's question is quite similar to that of Guzman, which also shows that everyone sees the problem from the same perspective.

Fang Lei shook his head and said, "No, we respect the workers' choice, and we will support whether the trade union they elect cooperates with us or not."

It’s a ghost to believe what you say, Boniface muttered in his heart, but he still couldn’t say that, he could only use Chinese Tai Chi: “This matter...it’s not convenient for the government to intervene, you can see for yourself Let's do it."

Thinking on his heels, Boniface also knows that the Chinese want to create a trade union that suits their own interests.However, the original trade unions are not easy to mess with. They are local snakes. The Chinese want to bypass the local snakes and do something else. Whoever wins and who loses may.Boniface decided not to go into this muddy water. If it is not done well, it will affect his political performance and votes.

Fang Lei seemed to have expected Boniface's attitude, and he came to Boniface just to report the incident.In fact, as long as an organization like the trade union can get the approval of the workers, everything will be easy to talk about, and the government will not make things difficult for the trade union.Of course, if Hanhua wants to kick out the original trade union and start a new one on its own, it has to be notified to the authorities. This is a procedural issue.

"I heard that you have built a lot of infrastructure in the towns around the Mutong Iron Mine. On behalf of the provincial government, I would like to express my gratitude to you for your kindness." Boniface said, "However, I don't understand. It’s what the government should do, what’s your intention in doing this?”

Fang Lei said: "We just want our workers to live a better life. Our purpose of mining in Mutong is to build a harmonious society."

"Crab..." Boniface muttered, frowning.

After Fang Lei left, the staff member Doria came forward and said to Boniface: "Mr. Boniface, I think the Chinese people's movements are a bit too big."

"how do I say this?"

"I went to the Mutong Iron Mine to see that the Chinese are now desperately buying local residents. In addition to building houses for them, they also build roads and repair primary and secondary schools. The most serious thing is that they also set up Chinese language training classes to train local residents. young people learn Chinese.”

"What are you doing learning Chinese?" Boniface asked in amazement, even though he was the governor of a province, he had never been to China.In his impression, China is a country that cannot be far away. Why do these rural farmers in Bolivia need to learn Chinese?

The Chinese language training class was also organized by Hanhua very accidentally. Unexpectedly, as soon as the news spread, many young people signed up to participate.Chinese goods have completely won them over, making them eager to learn more about the country.Of course, some people have a more direct motivation for learning Chinese, that is, to get a better position in a mining company in the future. If you want to flatter a Chinese boss, you must at least be able to speak Chinese, right?

Doria said: "I think they want to cultivate their own power. If this continues, the entire Santa Cruz province will be assimilated by the Chinese in a few years."

"That's what they say... river crab?"

"Uh... that's probably what it means."

"But, what can we do?" Boniface said angrily, "The finances of our entire Cruz province are not as high as the income of this Hanhua Heavy Industry. Can we compare with them? Mutong Iron Mine It is a project named by the president. If we offend the Chinese, it will affect the economic development of the entire country. We cannot bear such a big responsibility. Forget it, they can do whatever they want, as long as they don’t cause a big mess, let them go a head."

No matter what the local government thinks, Lin Zhenhua is all about promoting the construction of a harmonious local society.Mutong Iron Mine has more than 400 billion tons of reserves, which is enough for Hanhua to mine it year after year. It is not hesitating to build a country within a country for this purpose.On the surface, it seems that a lot of money is spent now, but in the long run, the saved management costs are far higher than the current investment.The enthusiasm of Bolivian workers is indeed not comparable to that of Chinese workers, but you can only use other people's workers to mine on other people's land. If you train them well, they should be able to work.

As for whether the local government will have any opinion on this matter, Lin Zhenhua can't control it.When the trade union went on strike, the local government said that there was nothing they could do to help, so if you want to re-elect a trade union, you just don’t want to get involved.Of course, he has also thought about what to do if the local government does not cooperate. If it is not possible, he can directly go to the president to complain.Hanwa is the largest investor in Bolivia. For a poor country, the investor is God. Whoever dares to make the investor unhappy, the country will make him unhappy.

The mine has already started to resume work. Zhao Yongqun and Canelas have renegotiated and agreed to put aside the dispute and not discuss the issue of McMeekin's punishment. He will be transferred to other positions to stay, and then all workers will resume work and resume production. .Canelas originally wanted to be tougher, but the workers below began to be emotional, and they all demanded to resume work as soon as possible, and Canelas could no longer be tense.

No wonder, after snapping up Chinese goods for a few days, everyone was empty-handed. During the strike, although the basic salary was still available according to the regulations, the performance salary was gone.The women in the town began to put pressure on their husbands, asking them to go to work immediately, earn more money, and a happy life can be created with their hands.

After the production order was restored, Fang Lei and others began to plan for the reorganization of the trade union.A group of old miners such as Guzman were invited out to form an advisory committee, and people in the town prefer to call them "the elders' house".The daily work of the presbytery is to organize miners, publicize and learn the spirit of Lin Zhenhua’s Santa Ana speech, and tell everyone that the development of workers must be linked with the development of mines to seek a win-win situation.

In order to support the publicity of the elders' homes, construction work in various small towns also kicked off.Lin Zhenhua invited the Chinese engineering team from the railway construction site to be responsible for the survey and design of various towns and the planning and construction of new workers' villages.Large-scale architectural drawings were posted on the entrance of the town, and various types of residences officially began to accept reservations from workers' families.Families who have no money can buy it by taking out a loan from the mining company, on the condition that a certain amount of money will be deducted from their salary every month for the next 20 years.Once this kind of loan contract is signed, the miner will officially become a house slave. Of course, he is a very happy house slave.

People's hearts were quickly attracted to the mining company, and a group of candidates that Lin Zhenhua expected appeared. They publicized their political demands among the workers, that is, to promote harmonious coexistence between workers and mines, and to build a harmonious Bolivia.With this slogan, Lin Zhenhua has reason to believe that they can become a political party in the future and compete in Bolivia's political arena.

This is called speculating in stocks and becoming a shareholder. I obviously just want to form a trade union that obeys my own words. I never thought about competing for the leadership of the entire Bolivian country. Lin Zhenhua is really emotional.

The workers are very down-to-earth, and everyone can tell at a glance who treats them well and who treats them badly.Union candidates who are close to the mining companies have the general support of workers, while those who advocate that an attitude that should remain hostile to the mining companies has no market at all.

What Lin Zhenhua did, of course, could not escape the eyes of Canelas and others.Canelas was originally just a gangster. After becoming the leader of the trade union these years, he gradually developed some political vision.He could see that no matter how hard the Chinese continued, his position as the trade union leader would sooner or later be snatched away by others.Of course, he can't sit idly by for such a thing, he must find a way to fight back.

"We're going to strike again." Canelas gathered his minions and said to them.Only a new strike can sever the ties between workers and mining companies, and it would be best if the mining companies were pissed off and revoked plans to build new workers' villages, so the workers would no longer trust them.

"But, Mr. Canelas, what is the name of our strike this time?" asked a young man, who was wearing a Chinese-made floral shirt, which looked cool.

"There will always be a name," Canelas said, "Let's just ask for a raise."

"This name may not be approved by everyone." Xiao Luo reminded, "The wages given by the Chinese are much higher than those given by the French in the past. Everyone feels very satisfied."

"Does that include you too?" Canelas asked with his eyes wide open.

"I..." Xiao Luo was a little panicked, he knew that Canelas had some gang background, and anyone who opposed him would end badly, "Of course I don't think so, I support you Opinion."

"Okay then, you guys should contact each other separately. I'll talk to the Chinese named Zhao and ask the mining company to increase the wages of all miners by 10%. If he agrees, everyone will thank us. If he doesn't agree, Then we will go on strike." Canelas explained.

"What if someone is unwilling to cooperate?" Xiao Luo asked again.

"Look who takes the lead and doesn't cooperate. According to the old rules, if you don't listen to us, beat him." Canelas said viciously.

"That's right, whoever is disobedient, beat him!" A group of minions shouted together.

(End of this chapter)