Volume 5 Chapter 29 - Strike (1/2)

Volume 5 Chapter 29 Strike

Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce needed to accept the consequences of working with other races, it wasn’t just the shock that this brought.

Other than bringing fame to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were other consequences to the shock that would bring losses to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

One of them was a problem that had always bothered the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. It was that because the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had too many other race workers, so even if they gained benefits that other companies couldn’t compare to, it also made it much harder to manage.

Even among the humans, there were splits, so there wasn’t a need to mention the splits between races.

When the Frestech Chamber of Commerce wasn’t that big still, this problem wasn’t that obvious, but now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had over three hundred household magic machine factories, there were a shocking hundred thousand employees under them. Whether it was the human workers or the other race workers, they all grew in numbers, so this problem became increasingly serious.

Among the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s hundred thousand workers, the human workers still made up the majority with over eighty thousand workers.

As for the other races, there were over eight thousand dwarves, fifteen thousand beastmen, and only over three thousand elves. Moreover, most of them weren’t directly managed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

So in terms of pure population, the human workers completely suppressed the other race workers.

But among the other race workers, few of the elves were managed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce so they could be ignored. However, for the dwarves with their natural abilities in forging, most of them were high skilled workers or mechanical engineers, so they had much higher positions compared to the human workers.

Because of Xu Yi’s high request for technique, these dwarf workers were given better treatment in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

Even if the dwarves were simple and easily to get along with, with this special treatment, the human workers were dissatisfied since they thought it was unfair.

Dissatisfaction over a long time naturally would explode.

So when Xu Yi came back to the Stantine Duchy from the Rudson Kingdom, he encountered something that surprised him.

There was actually a worker strike in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce!

When he heard Kennard report this matter to him, Xu Yi’s expression was very strange.

He wasn’t angry, he just felt that this matter was absurd and he couldn’t believe it.

The treatment he had given his workers was better than any company on the Sines Continent and they actually went on a strike?

It had to be known, before the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the highest wages for workers at companies was only a few gold coins a month.

But after the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared, with Xu Yi pushing them, the monthly wages of the various Banta City companies kept increasing. Right now it had reached an average of twenty gold coins a month.

This monthly income might even be the same as the income of several years for some of the peasant families!

They were still dissatisfied with this? And they wanted to get better treatment with a strike?

Xu Yi really wasn’t that angry, he just felt that this matter was a bit unbelievable. Anyway, he didn’t even have a single thought of being angry.

Before this, Xu Yi had never heard of a company’s workers going on strike, they didn’t even dare cause trouble.

Because it was hard being able to work for a company, so everyone treasured it.

However, perhaps it was because the magic machine industry the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed created many jobs, so that they could easily get other jobs, they didn’t treasure it as much.

Even if they didn’t work for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were many other magic machine companies that needed workers.

The workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were all skilled and rich in work experience. With the techniques they gained from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, they were welcomed at the other companies, so these workers weren’t worried.

So after Xu Yi thought about this, he realized that this matter was necessary and it wasn’t that strange.

In the end, people’s greed could never be satisfied.

If there was a chance, people would always choose the better path.

As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman, when facing the objections of ten thousand people, morals and conscience didn’t mean anything.