As the New Year approaches, many migrant workers are forced to spend the New Year in their homes because of the Epidemic. The worst of all are the migrant workers who are still seeking wages, and their hard-earned money is still in arrears, and the relevant local government departments are passing the buck to each other in this regard.
A group of more than fifty migrant workers from Gansu, Hubei, Anhui and Lianyungang, who came to Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province one after another from April 2020 to undertake the exterior wall insulation work, including the janitorial room, for Lot B of the Nine Dragons Bay Gz103 project of Jiaxing Dayuan Construction Engineering Co.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
Migrant workers in Yangzhou’s “Jiayuan Nine Dragons Bay” project, nearing the New Year’s Eve, are demanding their wages. (Photo on the Internet)
One of the migrant workers’ representatives, Mr. Yu, told the Epoch Times that their wage demands involve a development project of “Jiayuan real estate“, “Jiayuan Nine Dragons Bay”, “Now three of us are here to ask the workers for money, and they have all gone Home. The workers are all called over by us, there is no way. We have to give them to ask, so they have not been home, and this year there is an epidemic, they go home very early, we have to go back to face nucleic acid testing such things, in case the quarantine is finished.”
“To the year-end well, the boss has to give us a settlement, usually we just take some living expenses, the average down a person 1000 to 1500 this way. All together should be more than eight hundred thousand, we just took more than two hundred thousand.” He said.
“The boss who owes us wages is called Wu X Tao, tomorrow the boss let us do the wage table, has not said to pay, have to see what he said tomorrow, this is the last site.”
Another worker representative Yuan Hua (a pseudonym) said, “workers earn some money is not easy, long to say hello to the boss, early to prepare the wage calculation, until now are not prepared to pay out. Today pushed tomorrow, tomorrow pushed the day after. Today has been February 5.”
Work starts at about 5:00 every day before the end of the day dark
Mr. Yu introduced, they work in the site both tired and risky, “we are doing the facade, working on the shelf well, there are risks and safety hazards, migrant workers well is dry, from about 5:00 in the morning to the end of the night darkness. The workplace has 8 floors and 18 floors.”
“Living in the shed is very hard, the site canteen a meal of about 10 yuan, migrant workers the most grassroots, the most grassroots people are most afraid of the end of the hard money can not get. They developers house are sold out, but we do not pay wages.”
Yuan Hua (a pseudonym) also said that workers do not eat well on the site, sleep is not good, on those few hours, get up at dawn, basically do more than 10 hours a day, until darkness can not be seen before leaving work.
“There are Gansu, Hunan, Hubei, Huai’an, and Lianyungang, and Anhui, people from all over the world, dozens of people come and go, some people do a few days to leave, adding up to 40 or 50 people, came because the material supply can not leave people also.”
Relevant departments shirk and kick the ball
Yuan Hua introduced the site is not just one of their unpaid wages, “this site a lot of workers there waiting for money to ask for money, we are doing insulation, there are other projects waiting there (for money), which is not urgent? Which all want to go home for the New Year, the most excited to go home, once a year ah.”
“Have friends in this side of the job, know, find the government. The government pushed here and there, for example, you find the Youth League Office, he asked you to find the Labor Bureau, to the Labor Bureau to let you find the URA, pushing around.”
Mr. Yu also said, went to ask some relevant departments in Yangzhou, “this side pushed to that side, that side pushed to that side, just like that, kick the ball like.”
They are openly online, hoping to appeal to the network celebrities can help, “put a little pressure on us above, as soon as possible to give us wages, we want to go home for the New Year.”
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