More than 2,000 families collectively bargained with AIWAYS: more than 3 months of arrears

IT House news on June 27, on June 25, a letter titled "Call for Justice!" circulated on social platforms. Nearly 2,000 families collectively bargain for wages from AIWAYS.

The article pointed out that nearly 2,000 employees have been owed wages for more than three months, and the relevant demands of employees have only been ignored, can not be read, refuse to answer the phone or even block, cut off salaries, cut off social security, and endlessly work from home.

The long article makes the following demands: 1. Immediately state the schedule for retroactive pay, eager to hear specific solutions and timelines, not empty promises. 2. Provide transparent and direct communication channels, understand progress and ask questions and suggestions. 3. Ensure the full delivery of wages, pay the due wages in full in accordance with the laws and regulations of the contract, and compensate for the losses and troubles caused by arrears of wages. Finally, the long text said: "Please do not let our demands and voices be ignored, and do not let our pain and plight continue to be buried deeply." ".

It is worth noting that the salary of Aiways in March has been postponed, but it will pay the employee's social security and provident fund in March. Aiways also said: "Although the salary is delayed, the company's operation is normal. But at the end of May, Aiways launched a plan for employees to advance social security and provident funds at their own expense.

In addition, due to financial problems, the entire operation of AIWAYS is also in a state of paralysis, and even the content of many sections of the AIWAYS car app has been emptied; Many services such as maintenance service packages, vehicle lifetime warranty rights, and discharge guns can no longer be used normally. According to the first financial report, a property staff member in Changyang Chuanggu Park, Yangpu District, Shanghai, revealed to him, "Aiways has not come to the office for more than a week, and the office has been leased." According to reports, insiders confirmed that employees at Aiways headquarters are currently working from home.

IT House noticed that the sales of Aiways cars have also been unsatisfactory. The data shows that Aiways sold 2,600 units in 2020, 3,011 units in 2021 and 2,824 units in the first 8 months of 2022. In October 2022, Aiways launched its second production model, the U6, but it did not improve sales. In the first three months of 2023, Aiways sold only 92 vehicles.

According to the data, Aiways was founded in February 2017 by Fu Qiang, who has served as an executive in Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Volvo. The company's plant in Shangrao, Jiangxi Province has an annual production capacity of 150,000 vehicles, an R&D and design center in Shanghai, and battery pack factories in Changshu, Jiangsu Province and Europe. As one of the first batch of new automakers to achieve mass production and delivery, the business status of AIWAYS has always been difficult to improve.