News events about wage earners

The foreman hanged himself in the park pretending to be the God of Wealth to collect wages for migrant workers

Wearing a red robe, a gold crown on his head, and a knot tied around his neck made of white silk. At about 16:00 on the afternoon of July 23, 2009, under a big tree in Zijingshan Park, Zhengzhou City, a man dressed up as a "God of Wealth" wanted to "hang himself" to get back the hard-earned money of migrant workers. The reporter saw at the scene that there was a wooden board next to the "God of Wealth" with the words "Migrant Workers Weeping and Bloody Suicide Notes Asking for Wages". It says "Who wants to die? Ants are greedy for life. But I am also forced to have no choice. I can't get the money, I have to pay the rent, my wife and mother need to live, and the workers need wages, but the boss uses me as a ball to play. I have consulted many The department and the department can’t help me. I’m too tired to live. But what should I let the evil-minded bosses understand? In order to survive, I have borrowed more than 9,000 yuan from my friends. My eldest granddaughter She is only three and a half years old this year, and she tells me almost every day; "Grandpa, I want to go to school." Whenever I hear this sentence, my heart almost breaks. The second granddaughter is only twenty months old, although she still doesn't know where to go. Grandpa asked for something, but the child is getting older and has to go to school. After leaving the Pingdingshan College construction site, whenever I asked about the salary situation, I always said a week or a few days. I also explained it to the workers many times and tried to find a way first. Pingdingshan Tongfeng Construction Company kept delaying the payment of wages to the workers. To this day, it has delayed me for two months. Not only have I failed to make any money in these two months, but I have also incurred a lot of travel expenses, phone bills, and wife. They scold me almost every day, and workers come to my house to make trouble. What’s the use of my life? I hope that I can attract the attention of the media and relevant departments by dying, and then I can get the hard-earned money from my fellow migrant workers. The foreman wearing the "God of Wealth" costume said: "My name is Guo Jingzhou, a 47-year-old foreman from Sui County, Shangqiu. In December 2009, I led more than 100 migrant workers. When I went to work at the construction site of the Chemistry Experimental Building of Pingdingshan University, I did three main tasks: masonry, formwork, and steel work. Now that the four-story main body has been capped, Pingdingshan Tongfeng Construction Company, the contractor, refused to pay the wages of more than 700,000 migrant workers. ”

A man surnamed Zhang next to him who claimed to be Guo Jingzhou’s co-worker said that they had repeatedly approached Li Jie, the project manager of Pingdingshan Tongfeng Construction Company, to ask for an explanation. Li Jie told us that the owner, Pingdingshan College, should pay Pingdingshan Tongfeng Construction Company has paid more than 10 million yuan, but now it has only paid more than 5 million yuan. It is impossible to give you the money it owes. You can sue at will.

We had no choice but to go to Pingdingshan College to ask for our salary. Their reply made us even more heartbroken. The leaders of the Infrastructure Department of Pingdingshan College have always stated that they will try their best to coordinate with Pingdingshan Tongfeng Construction Company to pay the wages of migrant workers. The college has issued a notice requiring Pingdingshan Tongfeng Construction Company to pay the wages of migrant workers, but Pingdingshan Tongfeng Construction Company ignored it. There is nothing they can do.

Now, more than a month has passed, and more than 700,000 migrant workers have not been paid a penny of wages.

Parents need to eat, and children need to go to school, but if we can’t get back our hard-earned money, how can we have the dignity to go home? How could the dispute between the two companies (the contractor Pingdingshan Tongfeng Construction Company and Pingdingshan College) be passed on to us, making us sweat and shed tears.

Guo Jingzhou also said that he used the extreme method of "hanging himself" to attract the attention of the media and relevant departments in Pingdingshan through his death, thereby collecting the hard-earned money from his fellow migrant workers.

In a notice from the Infrastructure Department of Pingdingshan School, the reporter saw that Pingdingshan College, as the project party, had remitted 3.7 million yuan of project funds to the account of Tongfeng Construction Company, and ordered Tongfeng Company to build the project in Pingdingshan. Before the college agrees to resume work, it is not allowed to withdraw the received project funds without the consent of the school.

The reporter interviewed General Manager Zheng of Pingdingshan Tongfeng Construction Company over the phone. He told the reporter on the phone that they had already transferred the project payment to a person named Li Jie from a labor service company named Kangwanjia. According to General Manager Zheng, Li Jie was once an employee of Tongfeng Company, but he has been fired. Tongfeng Company has paid 900,000 yuan for the project. As for the remaining money that was not paid, it was because the other party did not submit an application for disbursement of project funds.

Guo Jingzhou told reporters that accepting the project document himself was a subcontracting one.

After finishing the work, Guo Jingzhou did not get the money because of a dispute between the contractor and Pingdingshan College. "We signed an agreement with Tongfeng, and Pingdingshan College also issued a notification letter, but we still can't get the money. I think that by attracting the attention of relevant departments, it can help me solve the problem. I am really desperate to hang myself as the "God of Wealth" ." Guo Jingzhou told reporters on the phone.

Guangzhou citizens tried to get 46 official seals and wages through legal channels to no avail

Yesterday (8th), starting from 14:30, Guangzhou Vice Mayor Chen Guo visited the Municipal Letters and Calls Bureau After receiving interviews for more than 4 hours, *** received 35 petitioners in 13 batches, mainly involving issues such as retirement benefits, social security, and justice.

During the interview yesterday, Mr. Su from Jinshazhou, Baiyun District choked up several times when he told his story. Mr. Su said that he was an employee of a garment factory in Baiyun District. In November 2008, the factory owner suddenly disappeared, but the factory still owed him and many other employees wages, totaling 223,000 yuan. Over the years, they have been seeking solutions through legal channels, and have now gone through all legal procedures including labor arbitration, first instance, second instance, and enforcement. “After going through all the procedures, I already have official seals stamped by 46 administrative departments, but I still have Can’t get money”. Mr. Su also said that because the owner of the garment factory had said that the garment factory was affiliated with the Baiyun District Health Bureau, he also went to the Baiyun District Health Bureau to report it, but the other party responded that the factory did not belong to the Baiyun District Health Bureau. But what he didn't expect was that the official seal on the red-letter letter issued by the Baiyun District Health Bureau was fake. "Students in the third grade of elementary school can tell that the official seal is fake."

In addition, Mr. Su also reflected that last year, he encountered a thief at home and exposed it to the media, but he was treated with a power cut. "The power was cut off for more than a year, leaving me unable to survive or die." .

Chen Guo said that he would follow up on Mr. Su’s complaint. The relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Municipal Letters and Calls Bureau also stated on the spot that people will be sent to the scene today to coordinate with Baiyun District and other relevant departments to solve the electricity problem at Mr. Su’s home.

During the interview yesterday, Chen Guo listened carefully and patiently to the demands of the visiting people, understood the ins and outs of each case in detail, and coordinated on the spot with civil affairs, human resources and social security, justice and other departments to come up with ideas for solving the problem. and plans, all given instructions and transferred to relevant districts and relevant functional departments for processing, and the Municipal Letters and Calls Bureau was instructed to be responsible for follow-up supervision to ensure that "everything is responded to and implemented."

Chen Guo said that governments at all levels and departments must attach great importance to petition work, listen to the people's appeals face to face, and handle petition matters in a timely manner. It is necessary to further open up the channels for petitions from the people, focus on starting from the source, focusing on the grassroots level, solving a large number of petition issues in their early stages, and avoiding the "backlog" of petitions.

Dali: 13 children of migrant workers begged for wages for their parents under the scorching sun

The action of a little boy holding a slogan attracted everyone's attention. My name is Yu Xian. I am 5 years old this year. I am from the rural area of ??Qujing. My father has been working here for many years and has not received any money. I am going to study soon. My father has been working outside for a long time and has not been home. I want to drink milk... Listening to little Yuxian's milky voice The narration made the onlookers feel distressed.

A man committed a suicide bombing in the Urban Huating Community on Hebei Road, Guangzhou

On the afternoon of January 18, 2013, a man went to the Urban Huating Community on Tianhe North Road in Guangzhou to ask for his salary. , detonating the explosives on him, killing him and injuring 8 others.

Witnesses said they heard an explosion as soon as they got out of the elevator and into the office. The elevator was immediately unusable and the entire door was deformed and emitting thick smoke. Half an hour later, everyone in the office was evacuated due to thick smoke, but the elevator was unable to be used and went up to the 32nd floor. Four or five injured people were found sitting or lying, their bodies burned black, their clothes torn and covered with blood. There may be other casualties. Another elevator is used to transport the wounded.

The phenomenon of wage arrears among migrant workers has been alleviated in various ways.

Imitating the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dressing up as Yuanfang in costumes, dancing Jiangnan Style... Recently, migrant workers have used various methods to New ways to ask for wages have attracted people's attention: the new year is approaching, is it still difficult for them to ask for wages after a year of hard work?

There are various ways to ask for salary

"Bang bang bang", on January 26, in a house being renovated in Shanglinxi Community, Haidian District, Beijing, Liu Shiliang, a bricklayer, was using rubber The hammer struck the tiles. "This is the last job of the year. I paid my wages to the boss in the afternoon and can go home to celebrate the New Year in a few days!" Master Liu's slightly tired voice was full of happiness and satisfaction. When it comes to wages, Master Liu said easily, "You can get the money on the same day at the earliest, and it won't take more than 20 days."

At this time, he lives in Gao'an, Jiangxi Province Liu Rong from Shixinjie Town is worried. This young mother in her 20s works as a printer in a ceramics factory in the town, earning a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan. "Every worker has one month's salary pledged in the hands of the boss. If he resigns, he will lose the money." Liu Rong said helplessly. "Depositing wages" has become an unwritten rule in their factory, and it is common for bosses to default on wages for one or two months. "Seeing that I need money for the New Year, I went to the factory to ask for it several times before I got my salary back for two months," Liu Rong said with emotion. What worries her even more is that she doesn't know when she will get back the 2,000 yuan she deposited with her boss.

The phenomenon of wage arrears has been alleviated

As for the wage arrears of migrant workers, statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2012 show: From the survey data in recent years, employers The proportion of migrant workers whose work units are in arrears with wages has been declining year by year. From 2008 to 2011, they were 4.1, 1.8, 1.4 and 0.8 respectively.

Migrant workers’ demands for wages have always been a topic of great concern. At the end of the year, provinces and cities across the country actively took measures to ensure that migrant workers received their hard-earned money. On January 22, with the help and support of prosecutors from the Changle County Procuratorate in Shandong Province, the wages of more than 3 million yuan for 92 migrant workers were fully cashed; recently, Jingbian County, Shaanxi Province launched a centralized rectification of the labor market order and the settlement of migrant workers’ wage arrears. A special operation recovered 25.01 million yuan in unpaid wages for 1,895 migrant workers.

“The phenomenon of wage arrears has been alleviated, but the disguised deduction of wages from migrant workers still exists, hindering migrant workers from successfully asking for wages.” said Cui Haixing, associate professor at the School of Agriculture and Rural Development of Renmin University of China.

The key to asking for wages is to rely on the law

“The key to solving the problem of migrant workers asking for wages is to rely on the law. Only companies with wage arrears, labor inspection departments, migrant workers and other parties must comply with the law. Only by relying on the law can this issue be resolved reasonably," Cui Haixing said.

It is understood that on May 1, 2011, the criminalization of malicious wage arrears was officially implemented. Recently, the Supreme People's Court issued a judicial interpretation, saying that "refuse to pay one worker's labor remuneration for more than three months and the amount is between 5,000 yuan and 20,000 yuan; or refuse to pay more than 10 workers' labor remuneration in an amount If the total amount exceeds 30,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan, it constitutes a relatively large amount and should be investigated for criminal liability."

Cui Haixing said, “The promulgation of relevant rules and regulations by government departments and the support of public opinion from the entire society are also important guarantees for migrant workers to successfully pay their wages.”

It is reported that local governments have also actively formulated relevant regulations. Policies ensure that migrant workers can get their wages smoothly.