Manufacturers facing labor shortage (in China)

2010-02-24 07:24

GUANGZHOU: Business at Wang Jianxue's shoe company is bouncing back, but the company has had to give up some "small" orders after the Spring Festival.

"A shortage of workers has forced us to. We are looking for more workers as orders have been increasing since the second half of last year," said Wang, assistant general manager of Huajian Group, a Dongguan-based shoe manufacturer.

"A large number of companies like us in Guangdong are facing a shortage of workers," Wang said.

In Guangzhou, the provincial capital, up to 80 percent of companies have been looking for more workers after the Spring Festival, according to Zhang Baoying, director of the Guangzhou human resource service center.

But the situation might find relief as more workers are expected to return to work after the Lantern Festival, which falls on Feb 28, according to Zhang.

Zhang attributed the labor shortage to a lack of long-term employment strategies.

"During the global financial crisis, many companies cut employees as they found it hard to secure orders. But as business bounced back, they hired temporary workers, who worked for only a short period of time, to sustain the business," Zhang said.

Many companies in Guangdong, a major economic powerhouse in South China, had to start production earlier than expected after the Spring Festival as they had secured more orders.

More: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-02/24/content_9492229.htm

Let's see if they look.

what's good for the goose... and so on

Handpainting, hand stitching, several hundred an hour...12 hours a day.

contacts I have to make each week to get unemployment.

and worker safety.

they can't find people to work for 36 cents an hour / live in the factory?

unfucking believable. maybe they should outsource.

sorry, this shit just pisses me off.

They don't have a shortage of people wanting work, but you can't easily move peasants into a factory and expect them to understand it.

The west had the same problem moving serfs into factories...people got mangled in the equipment and everything. You are moving people from the agricultural age into the industrial one.

as North America does.