Interview with Wang Xiang

In Huangshi, three Anhui migrant workers signed overseas employment contracts with overseas employment service companies, paying 30,000 yuan for labor export. Who knows that when going through the relevant procedures, they ran aground, and migrant workers repeatedly asked for labor fees, but without results.

Tang Sian and Zhang Haozhen were introduced by a technical school in Anhui in May this year.

Huangshi Dongchuang Overseas Employment Service Co., Ltd. signed an agreement to work in South Africa, and each person paid a labor fee of 30,000 yuan. The contract stipulates that the company will provide their services within three months.

Tang Sian: The first commitment was made at the end of June, then at the end of August, at the end of 10, and now at the end of 12, it is still being pushed.

Dongchuang Overseas Employment Service Co., Ltd. keeps pushing the labor export time. Is this a scam?

Wang Xiang, general manager of Dongchuang Overseas Employment Service Co., Ltd.: As it is the first batch of workers, the visa has not been obtained yet, and the Ministry of the Interior needs to issue another document, which is quite confusing halfway. The time for the first batch of workers to apply for visas is planned to be within 3 months, and 10 is ok. Now this time has exceeded the original expected time.

Because many consultations failed to leave the country, it was the end of the year, and the effective time for handling the formalities at that time had expired. Tang Sian, Zhang Haozhen and others don't want to delay any longer, and ask to cancel the contract.

Tang Sian: We can't push any more. We don't want to go. We have to quit.

In this way, Tang Sian and Zhang Haozhen will never go abroad again. The reporter saw from the various bills they showed that some of the 30,000 yuan they paid were borrowed from banks and some were borrowed from relatives and friends. I don't want to go abroad Naturally, I want to get this high labor fee back. Unexpectedly, Dongchuang Overseas Employment Service Company also took their invoices.

Cao Hongwei: You gave me the receipt and I agreed. We gave it to him. He said, go home and we'll remit the money to your account. So far, we have given him the invoice and the money has not been refunded to us.

Why not refund the money in person, but transfer the money to your account after someone leaves?

Wang Xiang, general manager of Dongchuang Overseas Employment Service Co., Ltd.: Our company cooperates with one of their local technical schools, so we should return the money to their technical schools, and they will return it to them in person.

According to reports, the person in charge of Anhui technical school has negotiated on the refund of money, and there is no result.

Wang Xiang, General Manager of Dongchuang Overseas Employment Service Co., Ltd.: We agree to handle it. We have a process. In the early stage, we raised 654.38 million yuan to return to them, and another 20 thousand yuan came back from South Africa, which may arrive in two months. We promise a refund, and we also promise a full refund.

This morning, three Anhui migrant workers who repeatedly begged for no results came to Dongchuang Company again and demanded an immediate refund, otherwise they would do extreme things, but Dongchuang Company still did not respond to this. In desperation, one of the young migrant workers broke a glass and cut his wrist to commit suicide. At present, the injured migrant workers have been arranged to go to the hospital for treatment, and the police have been involved in the investigation.

Now live reporter Wuhan reports.

Although the treatment of migrant workers deserves sympathy, it is absolutely not advisable to use this extreme way to achieve the purpose of asking for wages. Here, farmers are advised to get in touch with the labor arbitration department in time to protect their rights reasonably and legally. Mo Bangfu, a Japanese writer living in China, published an article in the New Overseas Chinese News in Japan, saying that people familiar with history will feel bitter and sad when the name "Yemailing" is mentioned in Japan. There was a movie that was once popular in Japan. It barks! Yemailing Ye Mailing silently witnessed the cruelty of history and the bitterness of girls. However, unexpectedly, Japan, which already has the status of the second economic power in the world, is still performing the movie "Ah! In the sequel to the realistic version of Wild Wheat Ridge, Japanese and Chinese companies colluded with each other, and female workers from China and Hubei were sold to the modern Wild Wheat Ridge.

"ah! The outline of the story of Yemailing is as follows: A girl from a backcountry bid farewell to her relatives in her hometown, crossed Yemailing and went to work in a silk reeling factory in Nagano Prefecture to survive. However, what awaits them is overloaded labor and exploitation by capitalists. Some girls fell ill because of overwork, and they were very ill. Their relatives came in the evening and tried to take the girl back to her hometown where her parents were waiting. In autumn, the maple leaves on the wild wheat ridge are like fire and picturesque. However, the girl was lying on the back of her loved ones and closed her young eyes forever in this beautiful scenery. It was during the cruel exploitation of these girls that Japan established the foundation of capitalism and eventually became a militaristic country.

Next to Nagano Prefecture where Yemailing is located is Yamanashi Prefecture, the hometown of fruits. However, unexpectedly, Japan, which already has the status of the second economic power in the world, is still performing the movie "Ah! A realistic sequel to Wild Wheat Ridge.

In the early morning of August 22, a housewife living in Showa-CHO, Yamanashi Prefecture suddenly heard a sharp and miserable cry for help and ran to have a look. In a house not far from her home, there are more than a dozen men and women pushing and fighting, dragging several Chinese-speaking women. These women clung to the legs of the table, trying to resist being dragged away by them and crying for help. The housewife hurried forward to dissuade her, when a self-proclaimed boss told her to go away and mind her own business. And those Japanese women who were forcibly dragged told her that they were so-called "technical interns" who came to work in China. Unable to stand the cruel labor intensity and environment, they asked the factory to improve, so the boss asked people to rush into the dormitory early in the morning and forcibly send them back to China.

It turned out that these women workers came from Huangshi City, Hubei Province and were sent to Japan by a local company named Dongchuang Overseas Employment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Dongchuang) in the name of learning to sew women's clothes and children's clothes. The study of sewing women's clothes and children's clothes belongs to the regulations of the Japanese government's foreigner training and skill internship system, and it is relatively easy to get a visa. In fact, these women workers were sent to work in a laundry company called technoclean in Showa-CHO, Yamanashi Prefecture. Laundry work does not belong to the object stipulated in the system of training and skill internship for foreigners, that is to say, "trainees" and "skill interns" cannot be recruited.

Women workers have to work more than 15 hours a day, and their monthly salary is only 50 thousand yen. Overtime pay is only symbolic. I have to work not only on Saturdays and Sundays, but also during the New Year when all Japanese employees are on holiday. From September 2007 to March 2008, they were only allowed to rest for three days. Excessive fatigue caused a female worker to fall and get injured when riding her bike back to the dormitory late at night.

On one occasion, the international research cooperation agency, a consortium legal person responsible for supervising the system of foreigners' research and skills internship, sent people to visit the company. Worried about exposing the illegal use of cheap female workers, the company quickly borrowed sewing machines and some processed clothes from other places to let female workers take them down and sew them again, pretending to be engaged in sewing women's and children's clothes. It also requires female workers to forge attendance cards to conceal the company's illegal behavior of requiring female workers to work overtime for a long time. And forced female workers to write down a false certificate that their monthly salary including overtime pay can reach 1 10000 yen, and they only work overtime for 33 hours every month within the scope permitted by law.

Later, women workers really couldn't stand the cruel working environment and meager wages, and issued an appeal to improve the working environment and treatment. Seeing that they had lost their exploitative value, the company took tough measures to forcibly repatriate the female workers regardless of the expiration of the contract period.

After a life-and-death struggle, the company's attempt to forcibly send female workers back to China failed that day, but seeing the men sent by the company guarding the door, the female workers knew that the company would not give up. So, they decided to jump from the window on the second floor of the dormitory and escape from this den. A female worker surnamed Zhang unfortunately broke her leg when she jumped from a window on the second floor. In addition, two female workers, duang and Hu, fled to sleep in a wild vineyard and were found by local residents the next day. Residents saw their scars and muddy water, and after knowing what happened to them, they sympathetically drove them to Tokyo. Japan's trade union organizations and members of parliament who care about foreign trainees and technical interns immediately participated in their protection. The women workers were immediately taken to the hospital for treatment. The hospital has proved that some injuries need 10 days' rest, and some injuries need fracture site surgery. Three female workers who didn't have time to escape were forcibly repatriated by the company.

On August 25th, Tomoto Uchida, the boss of the company, came to Tokyo and admitted in front of reporters and trade union members of the national newspaper Daily News: "If the other party was Japanese, the company would not make such a forced repatriation. I feel sorry for hurting female workers. " He admitted that the salary payment was illegal and would correct it. Regarding the amount of compensation, I said I would think it over before giving an answer. However, at the agreed reply time, Nowhida not only did not give a further sincere reply, but wrote to the trade union organization in Tokyo, not only denying atrocities such as beating people, but also saying that there was no problem with wages and salaries.

Seeing that technoclean and Uchida had no sincerity to solve the problem, on September 2, Zhang and other three female workers filed criminal charges with the police on suspicion of "arrest and imprisonment for injury" and "injury" according to Japanese law. In the afternoon, members of Congress, civic organizations and trade unions held a press conference for them in the Japanese House of Representatives, and announced this heinous and vicious incident. I was also invited to speak at the press conference, pointing out: "There is a famous Japanese book" The History of Women Workers' Mourning ",which describes the tragic situation of textile women workers in Taisho period in Japan (19 12 ~ 1926). Today, although Japan has become the second largest economic power in the world, the tragic history of living female workers continues, which is really indignant. " Japan's national media such as Tokyo News, Daily News and TBS TV immediately carried out a large-scale report, pointing out that "the experience of female workers is a modern version of the history of female workers' mourning".

It must be pointed out that sending these women workers from Hubei to Dongchuang Company in Japan played a disgraceful role. I called Wang Xiang, the manager of Dongchuang, hoping that she would do a good job in China and protect the legitimate rights and interests of female employees and the overall interests of the company. Unexpectedly, Wang Xiang didn't listen. Instead, he said, "Even if I lose money in Japan, I will ask those women workers to help me vomit when I go back to Hubei. Let them know who is in charge in Hubei. I will make their home look good. " In fact, the women workers also reported that their families had been threatened by Wang Xiang's husband: "I have someone in the Huangshi underworld and I can't beat me!"

I advised Wang Xiang to calm down. Dealing with this problem will not affect her whole career. However, Wang Xiang actually shouted on the phone: "I'm ready. Now this company has been blacklisted by Japan and can no longer engage in labor dispatch business. I tell you, I still have a company, and I can still do business normally. I won't let those women go. I have people in the province and I am not afraid of them. "

It seems that the reason why Takeshi Uchida, the boss of technoclean, who has completely admitted his mistake, experienced a drastic change of 180 degrees in a few days is inseparable from the tough attitude of Wang Xiang, the manager. On September 5th, Manager Wang Xiang rushed to Japan to deal with this matter. Before she returns to China, I hope she can meet a female worker when passing through Tokyo, so that we can have a good talk and strive for reconciliation, and I left my mobile phone number for her to contact. But, unfortunately, she didn't call. It seems that she and Japanese boss Nakata are determined to fight Japanese law and public opinion to the end.

I remember 10 years ago, a large-scale incident of cruel exploitation of China trainees occurred in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo. At that time, I found this problem, and when I went to investigate it, I repeatedly hoped that Japanese institutions and Chinese companies that accepted trainees would sit down and talk with trainees and reach a settlement. But they not only ignored me, but even threatened me. Finally, the incident ended with the imprisonment of the Japanese chairman and the blacklisting of China's dispatching company by the Japanese government. I didn't expect 10 years later, someone would bravely try the law. I wonder if they can get away with it this time.

However, I want to disclose first that the Japanese Ministry of Justice, which is responsible for approving visas, has stated that "non-payment of wages and violation of human rights are improper acts, and Japanese enterprises may be punished by stopping accepting trainees and technical interns for three years." The timing and content of this speech are very similar to the speech made by the Japanese Ministry of Justice 10 years ago. (Mo Bangfu)

(China News Network)

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