The Lunar New Year is approaching, and most textile and garment factories have started the “winter vacation” mode. Migrant workers have rushed back to their hometowns to enjoy the rare reunion time with their families. For textile bosses this year, the market environment this year is not good, and profits in previous years cannot be guaranteed. After the year, I am afraid there will be workers who will take advantage of this holiday and “gone never to return”!
Boss Chen, who is planning to set up a factory in Jiangxi, does not seem to have this problem:
Therefore, from March to April after the Spring Festival every year, the market will usher in the peak recruitment season. The mobility of workers in the textile industry is very high, which is a headache for many factory owners every year after the new year. As a representative region of China’s garment manufacturing industry, Guangzhou experiences a “recruitment difficulty” every year. Every time after the New Year starts, you will find signs all over the street that say “We want parking workers, electric shears, cutters, and tail workers.” The streets are also filled with people recruiting workers from garment factories, making it look like a rush of people. In order to recruit people as quickly as possible, many factories have offered words such as “monthly salary 8,000, monthly income over 10,000” to attract workers. However, even with the promise of a high salary, only a handful of people came to apply.
In recent years, due to various Due to these factors, many textile and garment bosses have chosen to move their factories out of Guangzhou. Recently, the editor saw a video. The boss friend who moved from Guangzhou to set up a factory in Jiangxi made money in Jiangxi that he could not make in Guangzhou!
According to Xiao Chen, the biggest difference between setting up a factory in Jiangxi and Guangzhou is that the workers are relatively It is said that it is relatively stable. After entering a factory, you generally do not change factories at will. Therefore, the scale of factories in Jiangxi is relatively large, and companies generally do not have “difficulty in recruiting workers”. Therefore, the labor pressure will be smaller than in mature clusters. a lot of.
In recent years, various costs in textile and garment factories have been rising, especially labor costs. , continuous annual growth of more than 10% has brought great pressure on enterprises to survive. As a labor-intensive industry, it is very sensitive to labor costs. It is understood that the overall domestic sales and foreign trade environment this year is not good, and terminal clothing companies are not as strong as in previous years in stocking goods and placing orders. As a result, some garment factories have received orders that are just enough to pay workers’ wages. A clothing boss who opened a factory in Guangzhou said: “In previous years, some We will prepare thousands of products for each model, and we will prepare at most 50-60 products this year. If the sales are good, we will not prepare a large number of products, because the profit from orders this year is too low.”
In fact, this is just a “microcosm” of the textile and clothing environment! In recent years, as terminal demand has shrunk and market homogeneity has become fiercely competitive, manufacturers have entered an era of meager or even no profits. In addition, the contradiction behind the difficulty in recruiting workers has continued to intensify. Once worker costs increase, it will undoubtedly make things worse for enterprises. !
The money earned this year is only enough to feed the workers!
How to describe the past 2019? Most textile bosses would say: It’s too difficult!
Since 2017, the entire textile market has started to embrace environmental protection. From the upstream raw materials to the terminal clothing industry, a trend of rectification has been set off, backward production capacity has been eliminated, and the production capacity in the market has been eliminated. Clear out. The central, western and inland regions have become the transfer base for most textile bosses. For a time, the entire market is very “busy”! This laid the groundwork for overcapacity in 2019.
Because of this, the low-price competition in the market is fierce, the market performance is poor, the overcapacity dilemma of the industry chain itself is difficult to solve, and the manufacturers’ own profits are getting lower and lower. Compared with the same period last year, most of the profits were directly removed! Mr. Chen from the Wujiang area said: “Now all costs are rising, including rent, water and electricity, and safety supervision. Workers also have high requirements for wages. The salary of a worker in the factory is nearly 10,000 yuan, so every month the salary is very high. It requires hundreds of thousands of funds, but in terms of orders, the prices given by customers are very low. Now some orders can make a profit of 2 yuan/meter, and some orders are taken at a loss, so after a year, I feel that I can only support the workers and my own daily life. Overhead.”
This is not only the case for weaving manufacturers, but also for clothing factories. A garment factory The factory owner cried: “Customers pay 10 yuan for processing fees for a piece of clothing, and workers have to pay 6 yuan for wages. All workers recruited by the garment factory are responsible for food and housing. The rent keeps rising every year. Once the rent, water and electricity are paid, We really can’t make any money!”
A market person said that in the past five years, the cost of clothing processing materials has increased by about 10%, but the increase in labor costs has reached ���35%, for enterprises, it virtually increases a lot of operating pressure!
This year’s employment The problem may be alleviated!
At the beginning of last year, many textile bosses were worried about recruitment issues: on the one hand, water spray production capacity was relocated, and there was a return wave of workers in many places. With factories being built one after another in Anhui, Jiangxi, Northern Jiangsu and other places, many migrant workers will choose to work locally and reunite with their families. After all, in these emerging clusters, textile professional workers are relatively nervous, so the wages are not less than before. Being close to home and having high wages have led many workers to choose to stay;
On the other hand, However, workers returned home early and resumed work late, causing problems in rushing orders. Since the beginning of 2019 has continued the market trend of 18 years, manufacturers have more or less a lot of work on hand. In the past, factories would resume work on the eighth day of the new year in order to seek good luck. However, workers are now returning to work later and later, and the factory’s normal start-up time is also continuously postponed. Now the eighth day of the Lunar New Year is the time for workers to report, and normal production usually does not start until around the fifteenth day of the first month. Labor is tight, which has led to many workers trying to get in early. Normal production will raise workers’ wages.
However, after this year’s visit and survey, this situation may improve, and many textile companies The boss said: The market is not good this year. Many bosses who built factories in peripheral areas have withdrawn from the market, and some local manufacturers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been demolished. Therefore, the number of workers entering the market will be better than that of the same period last year, and the labor problem will be relatively alleviated. “It is expected that workers’ wages will not increase this year because the market is not good for everyone, and workers will also strive for stability. Not many workers will resign before the New Year this year, so the employment problem should not be a big one.”
It can be seen that the industry’s labor shortage will become more difficult in 2019, and the labor shortage may be easing around the Spring Festival in 2020!
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