Original title: Guangxi Liugang Group's Labor Union Constructs Energy Level Wage System, Safeguards the Rights and Interests of Industrial Workers, Helps Enterprises Improve Quality and Efficiency - (Quote)

"Pay by technology" brings win-win (theme)

Worker's Daily - Pang Huimin, reporter of China Industrial Network, and Jiang Shaoxuan, correspondent

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The trade union of Liugang Group has linked employee compensation with skill performance, and constantly stimulated the enthusiasm of industrial workers to actively improve their skill level and carry out innovation and creation. While enhancing the sense of gain of industrial workers, it has brought good economic and social benefits to the enterprise.

"The setting of various allowances has increased by 20% compared with previous years, and workers are more motivated to learn technology, innovate and create." A few days ago, Huang Zhimin, a chemical analysis skills expert of Guangxi Liuzhou Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Liuzhou Iron and Steel Group), told reporters that this is a welcome change since the establishment of the energy level wage system by enterprises in 2023.

It is reported that since it was identified as a pilot unit for carrying out collective negotiation on energy level wages in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the trade union of Liugang Group has taken collective negotiation on energy level wages as an important measure to promote the reform of the construction of the industrial workforce, explored a development path that links employee compensation with skill performance, effectively protected the rights and interests of industrial workers, and helped enterprises improve quality and efficiency.

Based on win-win situation, identify the "breaking point"

"What is the level wage?" At the beginning of the implementation of the level wage collective negotiation, some employees raised questions. In order to promote workers to have a clearer understanding of the concept and goal of "encouraging more skilled workers to get more" of collective negotiation on energy level wages, the trade union of Liugang Group took the lead in setting up a negotiation working group, carried out several special studies with workers' representatives, and carried out publicity and research work of special collective negotiation on energy level wages in the Group to widely collect workers' opinions.

Wei Yingbin, the executive vice chairman of the trade union of Liugang Group, said that although the enterprise has long insisted on collective negotiation, the main contents of the negotiation over the years have focused on the minimum wage, average wage, wage growth ratio and other conventional contents. In the survey, the trade union of the group learned that "different ranks have corresponding level of level wages", "technical innovation achievements are rewarded", "competition awards, honors, and education promotion are all subsidized" and other proposals can significantly increase the proportion of "skill factors" in salary distribution, which have won the enthusiastic attention of employees and can greatly stimulate their enthusiasm for innovation and efficiency creation.

To this end, the trade union of Liugang Group focused on several key issues such as innovation awards, skill improvement, competition awards, honor awards, education allowance subsidies and so on to negotiate, and strive to make breakthroughs in the upgrading of employees' skills, winning various honors, and increasing the proportion, quota, and amount of awards for industrial workers when technical innovation achievements are implemented, so as to encourage employees to actively improve their skills.

Effective negotiation to find the "balance point"

"The key to negotiation is to find a balance between the scope of the enterprise and the protection of the interests of employees," said Liu Hongxin, chairman of the trade union of Liugang Group.

In combination with the current situation of the steel industry, the trade union of the Group organized the 40th joint meeting of the first Workers' Congress, focusing on improving the proportion and amount of awards for innovation and creation achievements for industrial workers, increasing subsidies for technical skills for industrial workers, and improving special awards for industrial workers in various competitions, The negotiation was carried out on five issues, including the increase of special awards for industrial workers in the honor category and the increase of subsidies for industrial workers in the education promotion category.

In the setting of "management breakthrough award" and "management modernization innovation achievement award", each award in the original scheme has no limit on the number of middle-level cadres in the group. After negotiation, the number of awards increased from 8 to 10, but the number of middle-level cadres was limited to no more than two, and middle-level leaders did not participate in the award distribution, which made the incentive policy more inclined to industrial workers. "This is more favorable for our industrial workers to evaluate their performance and professional titles. After their professional skills are upgraded, their allowances and benefits will also go up," said Zhou Lei, a skills expert of the group.

In addition, according to the negotiation results, the scope of awards for honor and education promotion has been expanded and reduced to a certain extent compared with the past, and the allowance setting standard has also increased from tens to hundreds of yuan.

Stimulate internal drive and build a "community"

"The collective negotiation of energy level wages has stimulated the initiative and enthusiasm of industrial workers to innovate and create, which can not only promote the quality and efficiency of enterprises, but also improve the self value of industrial workers, so that industrial workers can have both 'sense of merit' and 'face'." Huang Zhimin, a "craftsman in Liuzhou", has a deep understanding of this.

In 2023, Huang Zhitao, Huang Zhimin's apprentice, innovated the element analyzer, which solved the difficulty of only analyzing carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen at the same time in the past, and could reduce the cost of consumables by about 20000 yuan per month. The innovation won the prize in the competition within the group, and Huang Zhitao was rewarded for it.

It is reported that after the energy level wage was included in the scope of collective agreements and collective wage negotiations, the trade union of Liugang Group promoted the contribution of skills, efficiency creation of skills, and capital increase of skills to the level of the enterprise system, which further stimulated the upward drive of industrial workers, realized the win-win situation of enterprises and workers, and built a community of destiny.

In the year when the trade union of Liugang Group carried out the micro innovation activities for all employees, 859 projects developed by Zhou Lei and others have achieved 205 million yuan, bringing good economic and social benefits to the enterprise.