"The central government has repeatedly ordered that migrant workers should not be owed wages, but they just don't listen. ”
01
Guo Dayong is my brother, but I don't know him well, one year, he suddenly found me, called me brother, and I agreed.
I am ashamed to say that I have lived in the city with my parents since I was a child, and I am quite unfamiliar with my hometown in the rural areas of eastern Henan.
When he became an adult, he threw his pen from Rong and took the world as his home, and there were fewer opportunities to return to his hometown, and the contact with his brothers and brothers was basically broken.
There is a reason why Dayong suddenly looked for me.
In those years, everyone knew that farming could not make money, so they could only make a living, and if they wanted to live a better life, they could have a few spare money in their hands, all by going out to work.
Dayong has good masonry and carpentry skills, so he made an appointment with a few friends who are also skilled to organize a small contractor team to contract some small projects.
For Dayong, it is no problem to work, and he is not afraid of hardship, but he is most afraid of finishing his work but not getting paid.
When he came to Beijing that year, I invited him to eat sheep and scorpions at the "Tian Yishun" outside the north gate, and after drinking two cups of Erguotou, he complained to me and said, "It is much more difficult to get paid than to do engineering." ”
Dayong looked at me, I was in Beijing, and I often appeared on TV for a while, thinking that I must have a way, but in fact, it was not like that at all.
About seven or eight years ago, when the Spring Festival was approaching, he suddenly called me and said that he couldn't go home because he didn't get paid. I asked him where he was? He said that in a western province, there was not much money, only a hundred thousand, and there were several of them.
This also made me scratch my head. I know I can't manage it at all, but I can't watch them go home empty-handed and have a bad year!
The first thing that comes to mind is to find a relationship.
One of my senior brothers when I was in graduate school was already a deputy department-level cadre in this province, and there was also a classmate who worked in the provincial high court.
Usually, I don't have much contact with them, so I have to call them hard, but they are very enthusiastic, but after listening to the ins and outs, they all say that they can't help.
I'm at a loss.
Suddenly, it occurred to me that the central government had repeatedly declared that they should not be in arrears of wages for migrant workers, but they just didn't listen. Why not try the power of public opinion?
At least, I still have a Weibo.
So, I called Dayong and asked them to hold up a sign in front of the department where the wages were owed, take a photo, and tell him to leave after taking the photo and not stay, and then pass the photo to me.
After receiving the photo, I posted a Weibo. The matter turned out to be resolved with astonishing speed.
The next day, Dayong called and said that the other party had promised to pay his salary, but only if I wanted to delete Weibo.
I replied, "That's no problem, we don't want to embarrass anyone, as soon as you get paid, we'll delete it immediately."
Dayong said that the money was on the table in front of them, and they had to see that Weibo had been deleted before they would "push it over".
I couldn't help but laugh and immediately deleted the Weibo on my phone.
Half an hour later, Dayong happily called and said that they had already received the money and were on their way to the station.
02
I thought the world would be peaceful from now on, but a few years later, Dayong came to me again, and the situation was similar to last time, but could it still be done in the same way?
I was a little hesitant.
Coincidentally, I have a friend in this province who happens to be in charge of the social survey column of the provincial station, and as the New Year is approaching, they are also very concerned about the problem of arrears of wages for migrant workers.
I called and said, then I'll provide you with a material, and you can find out about the situation!
In the end, the matter was resolved again with an alarming speed as the provincial station said it would investigate.
03
Over the years, things have always been like this, and all bad things have not only been repeated over and over again, but also repeated and repeated.
Yesterday, Guo Dayong looked for me again, and it was still a matter of salary arrears.
This time, they participated in the renovation and resettlement housing project of the old house in the center of Mihe Town, Gongyi City, Henan Province, which was undertaken by the China Construction Sixth Bureau.
However, the person in charge of the China Construction Sixth Bureau refused to pay for the project on the pretext that the relevant materials were washed away by the flood.
Guo Dayong said, I have a detailed construction diary here, but they don't recognize it!
The ball is kicked to me again, what should I do?
Please give us your ideas.
By the way, a quarter of the 21st century has passed, isn't it a matter of course to work and get paid? Why has it become a more difficult problem than construction?
(The author is a senior researcher at the Kunlun Ce Research Institute; source: Kunlun Ce Network [author's authorization], reproduced from "15,000 meters at an altitude")