Foreign trade orders came to a sudden halt and production suspension notices were flying all over the place! Textile workers: Paid vacation and daily salary of 30, should they go or stay? Fabric factory: Switching to mask production to save yourself is more difficult than imagined!

“Our garment factory has been shut down. We will have a three-month holiday and receive a daily subsidy of 30 yuan…”

“Our factory makes bags and bags. Now we are working from 9 to 5 every day and on weekends.” Although there is no news about the suspension of production and holidays, all benefits in the factory have been cancelled, and the salaries of management staff have been halved.”

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At the beginning of the resumption of work, Most textile companies are trying their best to get workers back to work, but just when all the workers are about to arrive, they find that the orders that were originally unfinished seem to have been suddenly cleared.

The domestic epidemic is under control, but the overseas epidemic is out of control. As a result, the overseas consumer market shrank, and traders were bearish on the market and promptly stopped losses and canceled orders. This is a rational choice for them, but it is a disaster for all textile factories and traders upstream. Textile foreign trade, which has just survived the domestic epidemic, has to face an overseas epidemic that does not know when it will end. You can imagine their pressure.

In particular, the Yangtze River Delta region’s textile foreign trade exports account for nearly 60% of the country’s total. Behind this data are not just stacked containers, but also thousands of textile-related workers. The overseas epidemic continues to ferment. On the surface, it has brought about a large reduction in orders for various fabrics and clothing. On the deeper level, it has led to the continuous reduction of production capacity in many factories. Workers have either taken unpaid leave or taken low-paid leave.

Asharpdropinworkers’incomemayleadtoawaveofresignations

Productionreductionsandsuspensionshavealreadybeguninmanytextileandclothing-relatedfactories,whichwillinevitablyaffecttheincomeandbenefitsofworkers.

Accordingtoaworkerwhoblocksthesettingmachineinadyeingfactory,theirfactoryhasrecentlystoppedseveralsettingmachinesduetoasignificantreductioninorders,andtheworkinghoursofallsettingmachineemployeeshavebeenchangedfromtheoriginal”twoshifts”.Ithasbecomethecurrent”three-shiftsystem”.Ofcourse,workinghoursarereduced,andincomeisboundtofallaswell.WhenIworkedtwoshifts,Istillhadmorethan6,000yuanamonthafterdeductingsocialsecurity,butnowIonlyhavemorethan4,000yuan,andmyincomehasdroppedbyone-third.

Comparedtoemployeeswhocanstillmaintainproductionorreceivepartialsubsidiesaftertakingleave,manyfactoriesonthemarketaretakingunpaidleave,andsomehaveevenbeendissolved,leavingemployeestofindtheirownwayout.Althoughthecurrentstateofsomeofourtextileindustriesisnotgood,thiscannotbegeneralized.Textileproductssuchasmasksandprotectiveclothing,aswellassomedisinfectants,foreheadthermometersandotherindustriesrelatedtoepidemicpreventionarestillverypopular,whichmeansthatthemarketTherearestillsomefactoriesintheworldthathaveahugedemandforworkers.Overaperiodoftime,sometextileemployeesmustbeunabletobearthebasicsalaryandnopayanddirectlychangejobsorevenchangecareers.

Difficultiesremainwhenswitchingtoproductionofepidemicpreventionsupplies

Inthecontextoftheglobalepidemic,anti-epidemicsuppliesarethecurrenthottopic.Andproductssuchasmasksandprotectiveclothingarecloselyrelatedtothetextileindustry.Therefore,sometextilecompanieshavetheideaof​​​​convertingproductiontothisaspectinordertomaintainproductionandstabilizeworkers.Butwemustalsorealizethattherearemanyobstaclesintheprocessofswitchingproduction.

Firstofall,domesticproductioncapacityisbasicallysaturated.Atthebeginningoftheepidemic,thenationaldailyoutputofmaskswasonlyabout10million,butnowthedailyproductioncapacityhasexceeded100million.Thereisnolongerashortageofmasksinthedomesticmarket,andtheycanalsobepurchasedinpharmacies.Inaddition,althoughthedemandforanti-epidemicsuppliesishighoverseas,variouscertificationsaredifficult.Recently,therehavebeennewsthatmanycountriesdonotrecognizeourstandardsandquestionthequalityofmycountry’sexportmasks.Itisalsodifficultforrelatedcompaniestogetbacktheirpayment,andmanyoverseascompanieshavealsobeguntoSwitchingtoproducinganti-epidemicsupplies,theirproductioncapacityisalsogrowing.

Also,althoughmostoftheconvertedcompaniesarealsotextilecompanies,theyhaveoftennevercomeintocontactwithmasksandotherepidemicpreventionsuppliesbefore.”Everyindustryislikeamountain” It is very difficult for general enterprises to enter the industry, and the machinery and equipment, personnel training, and various certifications are very complicated. The initial investment is often huge, and generally people are not familiar with raw material procurement channels, so the procurement channels are limited and the cost is high. After all the preparation work is completed, the initial production cost will be much higher than that of its peers. In the context of the surge in production capacity around the world, many companies may have to face various low-price competitions when they start normal production, and high costs will make it difficult for these companies to switch production.

Therefore, some companies would rather suspend production and take holidays and lose workers than easily change production, because they are worried about falling into a dilemma.

Workers leaving their jobs and changing careers is not conducive to the recovery of production

Although the overseas epidemic is still raging, the epidemic will eventually end. The market demand for clothing and fabrics will also come back, or even explode.

At the beginning of the domestic epidemic under control, the textile industry once ushered in a wave of order production peaks when it resumed work. This also shows that overseas textile customers still have confidence in Chinese fabrics and clothing. Once the epidemic is over, consumers’ daily lives willWhen life resumes, it will still choose to cooperate with China first.

However, the current state of textile factories and workers may not be able to cope with orders when the market recovers. As the aging of the population intensifies, the problem of “difficulty in recruiting workers” has been plaguing the textile industry. Especially this year, the reduced income of employees due to production suspensions and production reductions will inevitably cause them to move to other places or change careers, and the problem of recruitment difficulties will become more prominent.

In addition, various factories frequently suspend or reduce production for two or three months, which will also accelerate the aging and damage of some machinery and equipment to a certain extent. Moreover, factories lack funds at the beginning of resumption of work and often do not invest too much in machinery and equipment. The production capacity and production status of the entire factory are very unfavorable for accepting a large number of orders.

The foreign epidemic is optimistically estimated to last until June and July. Once it continues to get out of control, it will end. The time cannot be estimated. The textile industry is currently forced to suspend production and reduce production, but we still need to be alert to the loss of workers caused by this process and the recruitment problem at the beginning of resumption of work. If conditions permit, companies should try their best to provide certain living allowances to employees on vacation, maintain a certain production capacity of factories, and stabilize employees. When the market recovers, they can seize the opportunity and harvest orders. </p