Chapter 27 The wage earner vomited blood and died

When we asked about the circumstances of Liu Huangqi's death from vomiting blood, the couple either faltered or fudged the reporter with various excuses.It wasn't until Ma called the newspaper office to confirm the real identities of us several times that they immediately changed their smiling faces, and Ma enthusiastically took out a can of iced Coca-Cola for each of us from the refrigerator Come.Although it was very hot and we were very thirsty, all of us refused to drink their Coke.Along the way, we once heard Xiao Ning say that when he and Nan Dao came together for an interview last time, it was this man and woman who avoided talking about their questions and asked them to drink Coke instead. Xiao Ning became angry at that time , pointing at the nose of the woman surnamed Ma and cursed: "Do you usually let your workers drink such iced Coke? Such a young life is so tired that he vomits blood in your environment with poor air and poor conditions." And died, have you ever cared about it? How can we drink such a Coke?” They had a fierce dispute afterwards, and of course the factory didn’t agree with them in the end, and called several security guards to drive them out.In order to avoid further disputes, Xiao Ning waited at the nearby food stall this time and did not come in.

Half an hour later, at the strong request of the reporter, the Hong Kong boss Zhou Buzhang and the factory director Ma called out another factory manager Huang who was in charge of the workshop and asked him to introduce the situation to us first. The reporter asked: "Did Liu Huangqi die from overwork due to excessive overtime in the factory?" Zhou immediately denied it, and said, "What's the fuss about dying? Does everyone die? It's just a matter of time." ..." We couldn't help asking him: "Should everyone be like Liu Huangqi, dying of exhaustion in your factory at a young age?" Zhou Lianlian said, he didn't mean that, and he didn't think about it. The young employee would suddenly fall ill and die.In fact, they are very sad, after all, we have worked together for so long.However, he admits that the factory is a family workshop, and it is not surprising to have to work overnight shifts to catch up with the goods. However, overtime work usually lasts up to 9:30 p.m. and is paid according to the work done.Their factory has never worked excessive overtime, which is recorded in the work card.In order to better implement more get more, they all implement the punch card system.Zhou said that he only found out about Liu Huangqi's death the day after he died.When the reporter asked, "You keep saying that Liu died of an illness, what illness did he suffer from? Was it acute or chronic?" Zhou faltered and couldn't answer for a long time.Standing by the side, Ma replied murmuringly: "He must have died of a sudden illness. You have to ask the people in the hospital to find out. We are just people who run a business, not doctors! Anyway, this matter has nothing to do with our factory. It doesn’t matter much, we have accepted the regulations and lost money, and we have already done our best.” However, in the face of the hard facts, the boss Zhou finally sighed and said: No matter what, we have certain responsibilities, and we also We don’t want to make things big, and it’s best to solve it privately, so we asked for the opinions of the family members of the deceased, and paid a lump sum compensation to the family members of the deceased in accordance with state regulations. A total of 19,000 yuan was paid. It is quite difficult, and other people's factories usually pay several thousand yuan in compensation.

In order to show that what they did was legal, Zhou also asked Director Huang to show the basis for compensation——"Guangdong Provincial Enterprise Employee Holiday Regulations."Liu Liang, who is from the Labor Department of Guangdong Province and is well versed in various labor regulations, immediately pointed out: This is somewhat wrong, because Liu Huangqi died after vomiting blood during the overtime shift, not during a holiday. Can it be applied?As he spoke, he deliberately took out a document from his bag, and showed Zhou and the relevant person in charge of the factory the relevant provisions with the red official seal of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Labor on the spot.Zhou and the other three took it over and looked at it for a long time. After a long sigh, they had no choice but to remain silent.

Regarding the cause of Liu Huangqi's death, Zhou either faltered or avoided answering. He got impatient with the question, and brazenly ordered the reporter to leave several times. Before leaving the United States to enter the factory, we asked Zhou about the problems reported by the six migrant girls who had left the factory: "I heard that six female workers resigned from your factory yesterday. May I ask why the factory didn't pay the six female workers?" What about the wages?” Zhou Buzhang said eloquently: “If I fired them, I would pay them immediately; but the problem is that they are going to leave now, they left on their own initiative, so it is impossible for me to pay them. Money..." One of the reporters asked: "You treat these employees who have sweated for your factory like this, are you not afraid that they will go to the local labor department to sue you?" Zhou Wen laughed out loud when he heard this. Looking at his fat head, he said: "Yes, didn't China promulgate the "Labor Law" long ago? I also hope that someone will sue me. I welcome this, but unfortunately, I haven't heard of anyone suing me so far. My status! What does this mean? Doesn’t it mean that our factory operates according to the law, and there are no such problems at all?”

It was not until 7:10 in the evening that this extraordinary interview was over.When the reporter and his party just walked out of the United States and entered the gate, dozens of employees who had already been waiting here surrounded the reporter. They said angrily that when Liu Huangqi was sick and asked for leave, the factory only allowed him to rest in the factory, did not let him go out at all, and did not lend him money to go to the hospital.In the first two days of his illness, he had to work two consecutive overnight shifts. On July 9, Liu coughed up blood in the workshop, and then in the bathroom... Several female workers cried and said that the honest and honest Liu Huangqi had always been in good health. This death was entirely caused by the factory's forced overtime work and excessive fatigue .

The next day, Southern Metropolis Daily disclosed the matter on the front page with the title "Working overtime for two consecutive nights and asking for sick leave not approved" and the theme "The wage earner vomited blood and died".At the same time, I also disclosed the misfortunes of several working girls in the factory under the title "Six Migrant Girls Sue Meierjin".On the same day, "Oriental Daily", "Yangcheng Evening News" and other media also disclosed this vicious incident. Our report has aroused strong repercussions in society.Hundreds of readers strongly condemned the unscrupulous bosses in Hong Kong in different ways, expressed sympathy and concern for Liu Huangqi's family and several working girls, and wanted to know the progress of the incident.

Our report quickly alarmed the governments of Dongguan City and Dalang Township. The relevant departments immediately held a production safety meeting and set up a joint investigation team composed of the township government, labor unions, etc., and went to Meierjin to investigate. . On the morning of July 27th, Deputy Mayor Li of the Dalang Township Government in charge of enterprise safety production made a special appointment to meet with reporters from Southern Metropolis Daily, Yangcheng Evening News and other media, as well as a number of journalists from Guangzhou Daily, Guangdong TV Station and other news units. Reporters also came to interview.Deputy mayor Li announced to me the results of the investigation: Meierjin woolen factory seriously violated the relevant provisions of the "Labor Law", did not sign contracts with the workers according to law, worked too much overtime, and overtime hours were too long.It has been verified that Liu Huangqi worked 675, 615, 53, and 70 hours of overtime from March to June, among which he worked overtime until 3 a.m. on July 1, which exceeded the relevant state regulations.After Liu's death, he was diagnosed with gastrointestinal hemorrhage and shock, and the main cause of death was respiratory and circulatory failure.Whether the cause of his death was related to excessive overtime could not be determined because the body had been cremated.Under the supervision of many media, the factory finally reached an agreement with Liu Huangqi's family: the factory will compensate the family of the deceased 350,000 yuan (including the 18,970 yuan already paid), and the two parties will no longer apply for labor arbitration, and the family will no longer file a lawsuit.

On August 13, when relevant personnel from the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress went to the Meierjin again to conduct law enforcement inspections, they were surprised to find that the factory ignored the relevant rectification plans proposed by the local government departments, and various problems were still serious.Later, "Yangcheng Evening News" reporter Du Ying exposed this time again. In fact, more than a month before we interviewed this vicious case of a migrant worker who vomited blood and died, Ning Zuoler and I also interviewed a nationally sensational incident of “Late-night ward rounds scared migrant girls to death”. There was a very strong reaction in the family.Since this case has been recorded in detail in my first new book "Undercover Adventure-My Fourth Narrow Escape", I won't repeat it here.

"Migrant workers vomited blood and died", "Late-night ward rounds scared migrant girls to death", "Female teacher beat elementary school students with whips", "Eating bully rice and beating innocent people incident" and the "Migrant worker tragically killed by his girlfriend's parents fisting" which I mentioned later "And other incidents, because they directly hit the sharp incidents that the common people are very concerned about, and the victims are all migrant workers living in the south, so they have aroused extremely strong repercussions in all walks of life. The social effect is huge, and it also makes my journalistic career reached an unprecedented height.So far, as long as the above reports are mentioned, many readers will remember my name as a political and legal reporter.The social impact of these news reports, since the "Southern Metropolis Daily" was first published, apart from the later "Sun Zhigang incident" that caused a national sensation, there are few reports that can exceed their influence.