Recently, a security worker complained to the editor: “Last month a security worker in our factory resigned, and now there are three of us doing the work of four. We finally got an experienced skilled worker, and he proposed a salary of 9,000/month, but our boss said that the maximum salary would be 8,000/month, and we couldn’t reach an agreement in the end. We will continue to have 3 people doing the work of 4 people. If no one comes, we will I’m going to raise my salary with my boss.”
Labor costs have always been a headache for textile bosses. In recent years, labor costs in the domestic textile industry have been relatively high. The survey shows that the wages of textile factory workers in the southeastern coastal areas are concentrated at 5,000-10,000 yuan/month, while the wages of workers in the central and western regions are roughly around 3,000-6,000 yuan/month.
The overall level of wages is high, but workers are not Satisfied
It is worth mentioning that the wage level of textile workers is already very high, but few young people are willing to enter this industry, and many workers are actually not satisfied with this wage level.
“I think the wages that textile workers earn are completely earned through time and sweat. They have to work 12 hours a day in shifts in the morning and evening. In addition to the impact of this year’s epidemic, In previous years, there were no holidays except for May Day and National Day, and there were few holidays. Now those who are willing to work in our industry are basically those born in the 1970s. Those born in the 80s and 90s are very rare. Textile technicians will become increasingly scarce in the future.” A weaver produced The person in charge of the workshop said.
Another textile worker said helplessly: “The wages of textile workers have increased in recent years. They will give us an increase of 200 yuan/month every year after the New Year, but they cannot keep up with the increase in urban prices and housing prices. Textile workers Workers generally come from other places to work, and it is still difficult to gain a foothold in this city.”
The boss of a company with 200 water-jet looms said: “In order to retain workers, we spent a lot of money at the beginning of the year. The price of the machine maintenance workers was 240-260 yuan/shift last year and 270-280 yuan/shift this year, an increase of 20 yuan/shift. Machine maintenance workers were previously paid 8,500-9,000 yuan/shift, but this year they were 9,500-10,000 yuan/shift, an increase of 1,000 yuan. /Class.”
Wanting to increase wages to retain skilled workers and attract more young people to enter the textile industry is the original intention of most textile bosses to increase wages, but the effect does not seem to be obvious. Nowadays, the number of textile workers every year The attrition rate is still very high, and the post-90s generation is more inclined to work in an office, such as order processing and follow-up.
This year, due to the impact of the epidemic, the situation has become more serious. Due to the decline in textile prices and profits, many factories have problems paying workers’ wages at the end of the year. In recent years, there are many bosses who have run away because they are unable to pay workers’ wages.
Labor costs have increased year by year, but product prices and order volumes have declined sharply
The annual increase in worker wages has a great impact on textile bosses, which also means that Their costs have increased, and the costs are reflected in product prices, but product prices and order volumes have been declining year by year.
A boss who makes imitation silk revealed: “The price and sales volume of imitation silk have plummeted this year, and the price of gray cloth has generally dropped by about 0.3 yuan/meter. Recently, The price of raw materials has increased, but our gray fabrics have not. The market has not been good in the past few years. When the quality is about the same, customers will definitely give priority to low-price products. Moreover, the social inventory of imitation silk is now very large, and there are many The inventory of gray fabrics in enterprises has exceeded 3 months. In this case, how can the price of imitation silk rise?”
Not only imitation silk, occupying The prices of imitation memory, pongee, polyester taffeta, and nylon, which are the bulk of the social inventory, have dropped by at least 30%!
Labor costs continue to increase, but product prices cannot be raised, and profit margins are compressed. Even if orders are currently returning, The number of orders began to increase, but each one was losing money. An industry and trade company that makes terry cloth revealed: “Orders began to increase in the second half of the year. I thought we should still make a profit this year, but I didn’t expect that we had already lost 400,000 yuan.”
In addition to labor costs, shipping costs in the second half of the year Factors such as the crazy rise and the depreciation of the US dollar made Boss Bu, who mainly focused on foreign trade orders, feel deeply that the more orders he received, the more he would suffer.
As labor costs are difficult to significantly reduce, many bosses are looking for ways. Some bosses have introduced automation equipment. For example, a textile factory has introduced ERP equipment. In this way, a stopper can only watch 20 machines. I can watch about 30 channels now. Not only does it improve workers’ efficiency, it also reduces the factory’s labor costs. Some dyeing factories have introduced cloth coding machines to realize automatic coding and reduce labor costs.
There are also some bosses who are working hard to improve the added value of their products. According to a cloth boss, “No one has paid attention to conventional products in the past few years. What we do happens to be the most conventional pongee, so we I want to add glossy yarn to the raw materials to make the cloth surface shine under the sunlight, which is recognized by customers. If I package it a little, the price of the fabric will be 0.2-0.3 yuan/meter higher than the conventional one.” Therefore, in becomeUnder uncontrollable circumstances, increasing the added value of fabrics to obtain higher profits is the direction that cloth bosses will work hard in the future.
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