Chapter 33: Job Competition
In the afternoon, Feng Rui took Chen Yong and Tian Xiang to the two household handicraft production groups he managed.
This so-called production group is a small-scale production group based on the community, recruiting unemployed individuals from each family.
This form of production usually cooperates with factories or supply and marketing cooperatives, where the other party purchases at a unified price, and we organize and are responsible for production, earning some labor fees to cover family expenses.
Although the scale of this production group is not large and its stability is not strong, it is an important part of community activities.
Currently, job opportunities are scarce. Some families have elderly and children to support, with seven to eight members but only one person managing to find a job. It’s hard to make ends meet with the little salary, so these production groups help alleviate the pressure on these families to an extent.
In other places, such production groups are jointly managed by the street and residents’ committees.
But on Red Fifth Street, these matters are entirely handled by the trade unions of several major factories.
No choice, the people on Red Fifth Street are highly organized and ideological, preferring to listen to the factory rather than others.
Gradually, all such matters have been shifted to the factory union’s side.
Because Tian Xiang lives on Sanli Lane, she wasn’t very familiar with the situation here. On the way, Feng Rui explained the key points to her.
Currently, Feng Rui manages two production groups: a weaving group and a construction team group.