Drink tea and eat mooncakes at the courier station, send children to the union summer camp to study, find union lawyers to help defend their rights... In Foshan, new employment forms such as courier brothers and takeaway riders are feeling the special care of "mother's family".
At present, a large number of new forms of employment groups mediated by Internet platforms have emerged, which has become an indispensable and important driving force for Foshan's economic and social development. Foshan has built industry trade union organizations, and trade union work has covered new employment forms such as express delivery brothers and takeaway riders; the trade union service position has been further extended, moving to the streets, alleys, commercial buildings and other new formats of labor gathering places, and even through the Internet to send services to the "little brother" heart, effectively be a good intimate "mother's family".
Position service
"Little brother" has a "mobile home"
At 13:00 on October 20, after delivering the last courier in Zumiao Street in Foshan, Tan Yonghua drove a three-wheeled courier truck to the "Express Brother Red Station" (China Post Chao'an Station). On the way, he stopped the car to buy a fast food and prepared to eat and rest at the station.
Tan Yonghua, 50, is a courier at the Foshan City Branch of China Post, and has been in the profession since graduating from high school. "It was a particularly warm feeling to walk into the station. This point back to the unit no food to eat, noon just a little time to rest, you can read books here, there are 150 pieces of express delivery to send in the afternoon, it is estimated to be busy until more than seven o'clock in the evening. Tan Yonghua took a free drink from the refrigerator and sat down on the sofa to eat a hot lunch.
Stations like this are located in all corners of Foshan and on the first floor of the office building of the Foshan Federation of Trade Unions. "This year, trade unions at all levels in Foshan have set up trade union federations in express delivery, urban distribution, online car-hailing and other industries, which currently have nearly 20,000 members and strive to reach more than 100,000 members by the end of next year." Deng Xinming, director of the Organization Department of the Foshan Federation of Trade Unions, said that while doing a good job in the work of establishing and joining the union, trade unions at all levels in Foshan have also established a number of effective services and service positions for workers in new employment forms through the construction of "trade union outdoor workers' love stations" and the integration and standardization of "meetings, stations and homes", and through the positions.
"The station solves the problems of 'difficulty in drinking water, eating, resting, and toileting' in the work of our courier brother, takeaway rider and online ride-hailing driver, so that we have a supply station and a resting place for us to walk the streets and alleys, and it is our 'mobile home', so that everyone has a stronger sense of belonging to the city." Looking at the water dispenser, table tennis table, TV, book corner and other facilities in the station, Tan Yonghua said with a smile. During the visit, the reporter learned that some stations also actively expand services, providing lectures, technical title (qualification) declarations, talent policy consultation, and electric vehicle license plates to help express delivery brothers improve their personal capabilities and business levels.
In addition to normal services, the Foshan trade union will also give these employees a different warmth in some festivals. During this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, the Foshan Federation of Trade Unions prepared mooncakes at some stations, so that the courier brothers running on the road could taste the mooncakes and feel the strong blessings of the union when they rested at the station.
Services are extended to the children of employees
Online and offline
After the establishment of the association, how to better provide services for the new employment form of workers, so that they can unite in the "big family" of the trade union and feel the warmth of the "home"? The Foshan trade union combines the characteristics of practitioners and provides them with a series of services through a combination of online and offline methods, from caring for employees to caring for their children.
This summer, for Xie Ning, the brother of Jingdong Express, it is very happy to be reunited with a family, and this happiness comes from the summer camp of the union. This year, when the Foshan Federation of Trade Unions launched the summer camp activity for the children of employees "Feeling Foshan And Growing Up Happily", it specially carried out three summer camp activities for the children of employees in the "three new" fields.
"When I learned of this activity, I signed up for the first time." Xie Ning, a 34-year-old from Guangxi, went to school in his hometown in Guangxi, and after successful registration, he specially took the child to Foshan. Every day before going to work, Xie Ning sent the child to the Foshan Workers' Cultural Palace and picked him up after work in the evening. "The union's summer camp activities gave us the opportunity to reunite as a family, allowing me to work with peace of mind during the day and spend time with my children at night."
Hua Xiaoming, a young brother of SF Express, also signed up after seeing the tweet of the event on the "Foshan Trade Union" WeChat public account. Hua Xiaoming is from Qingyuan, the child is 7 years old, although he has always taken the child with him, but he has no time to take care of it because of his work in the summer. "If you apply for a training class, you will have one or two classes a week, about an hour per lesson, and the rest of the time the children will watch TV at home." Hua Xiaoming told reporters that the summer camp of the trade union takes "learning + play" as the main line, with the purpose of cultivating and improving comprehensive quality, integrates physical fitness, cultural quality and practice into the curriculum design, and opens courses such as badminton, recitation, hard pen calligraphy, safety education, and red classic film viewing. "After class, the children can also make full use of the cultural resources of the Foshan Workers' Cultural Palace, read and learn in the intelligent cultural home, have special guards, and wait until I leave work at seven o'clock at night to pick up, the service is very thoughtful, and many of our colleagues have signed up." Hua Xiaoming told reporters.
In Foshan Shunfeng Express Co., Ltd., in addition to the summer camp is widely praised, the Foshan Federation of Trade Unions and the Municipal Postal Administration jointly launched the "Re-walking the Long March Road , Striving for a New Journey" Foshan Express Industry Party History Learning and Education Online Activity is also very popular among couriers. At the event, Wu Caimei, a courier of Gaoming Branch, also won the title of "Learning Pacesetter in the Express Delivery Industry".
"This is a small program activity, you can click into it to participate, as long as 10 minutes a day, will not delay our work." Wu Caimei said that there are 16 levels on the activity map, and through the 'online answer points + offline exercise steps', you can redeem the mileage to unlock the corresponding level icons, and after work, you can also understand the important historical events of the Long March and learn the knowledge of the express delivery business. The reporter learned that this mini program was recently rated as one of the top 30 outstanding cases of the Theme Activity of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in 2021 "Gathering Positive Energy of Employees and Striving to Be a Good Netizen in China", and is the only case in the country that has won the single award of the Mini Program for Employees' Ideological Guidance.
In addition, trade unions at all levels in Foshan have also carried out special activities for new employment forms to vaccinate against the new crown vaccine, the "Story of Me and the Station" short video contest, the screening of female employees for two cancers, marriage and dating and other activities, so that the group can enjoy a variety of inclusive services.
Rights protection and support
Escort the labor rights and interests of the "little brother"
In 2018, Fang Yonghua (pseudonym) entered a foshan agricultural product delivery company to work as a takeaway rider, and then led 6 friends to enter the company together. "Although the company signed a labor contract with us, but has not helped us pay social security, in addition to the basic salary of 1720 yuan per month, other wages are mainly earned by running orders, working at least 10 hours a day, and the monthly salary can only get four or five thousand yuan." Fang Yonghua told reporters that the company promised to pay social security for them but has not acted, so he resigned in March this year. Subsequently, Fang Yonghua and 7 other people applied for labor arbitration because the employer did not pay social security and overtime pay, and found the Foshan Federation of Trade Unions, hoping to apply for legal aid from the trade union.
After accepting the assignment, Lawyer Yu Chenxi of Guangdong Kede (Foshan) Law Firm actively contacted Fang Yonghua and others to understand the relevant situation and represented him in court to participate in trial activities. "Because the reason that Fang Yonghua and others filled in when they left their jobs was not that the employer had not paid social insurance, but on the issue of overtime pay, they had been running for a long time, did not have attendance punch card records, and could not provide evidence to prove the existence of overtime, so that the progress of the case was not very smooth." Yu Chenxi said.
The experience of takeaway rider Fang Yonghua and others is universal among workers in the new employment form. All along, the Foshan trade union has increased the protection of the labor rights and interests of workers in new employment forms, explored the establishment of convenient legal service channels, and provided legal aid for workers with new employment forms whose labor rights and interests have been damaged. While doing a good job in individual cases, trade unions at all levels in Foshan have also actively carried out training to improve the legal awareness of this employment group.
On September 13, the Foshan Express Industry Federation of Trade Unions held the "Foshan Training Course on Protecting the Legitimate Rights and Interests of Couriers", inviting the relevant person in charge of the human resources and social security department to explain the "Measures for The Participation of Specific Personnel Such as Workers Exceeding the Statutory Retirement Age in the Unit to Participate in Work Injury Insurance (Trial)", and interpreted the background, characteristics and difficult issues of the policy. The trade union lawyers trained the protection of the rights and interests of couriers and the legal aid policies of the Foshan Federation of Trade Unions. The trainees said that the training was instructive, practical, and beneficial, and had a better understanding of the policies to protect the legitimate rights and interests of couriers, which was very helpful for future work.
"The purpose of establishing the Express Industry Federation of Trade Unions is to form a mass organization that can represent the fundamental interests of all couriers in the industry and better safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of couriers." Li Changgeng, chairman of the Foshan Express Industry Federation, said that as of June 2021, Foshan's express delivery industry has completed 670 million pieces of business and accumulated business income of 7.515 billion yuan, ranking 6th and 5th in the province respectively. At present, there are about 35,000 employees in Foshan's express delivery industry, and more than 40,000 people during the peak season. The Federation of Trade Unions will actively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of industry employees, meet the diversified needs of industry employees, stimulate the enthusiasm of industry employees and officers for entrepreneurship, and promote the healthy development of industry norms.