December 25th, Christmas.

During the Christmas holidays in previous years, the Drake Chamber of Commerce would often start to adjust the sailing schedule and deploy personnel one month in advance to ensure that every employee can reunite with his family as much as possible.

In Lorraine's view, this belongs to the construction of corporate culture. Of course, it is more about operating costs and talent retention considerations.

With the expansion of the chamber of commerce, Lorraine spent a lot of energy thinking about the mental state of the employees.

He needs his employees to work 12 to 16 hours a day, six and a half days a week, the salary is not higher than the market average, but also a happy mood, a sense of belonging and identification with the chamber of commerce.

This is not easy.

After all, the Drake Chamber of Commerce is now a big business, with three shipyards, nearly 400 exchanges, more than 200 independent warehouses, and a total of more than 600 large and small merchant ships under its name.

He also has 14 manor houses, 1 castle, 4 exclusive piers above the designated size, 3 pieces of private land with [island] as the unit, 27 elementary schools, 4 intermediate schools and 1 senior school.

Excluding temporarily hired sailors, laborers, and craftsmen, serving private servants and housekeepers, depending on the crops of slaves and long-term workers who have signed a contract of sale and are no different from slaves, the total number of employees in the Chamber of Commerce reached 9,966 at the beginning of 1784, of which There are 2309 long-term sailors, 575 managers and 42 partners.

The labor union formed spontaneously.

The first union was born in free Boston.

In June 1782, a ship fluid designer named Danny Hoffman believed that [providing hot tea instead of coffee in the pantry is an insult to the designer’s profession]. He called 8 fellows to the Weiss Gus Cafe established the [Back Bay No Tea Union].

Half a month later, his rival in the camp, Hite’s secretary and sail designer Smail Solaust, established the [Coffee to Death Union] with 13 founding members.

The two major trade unions launched a fierce debate in the uncompleted second level dock No. 5 dock, which caused several bloodshed incidents of pecking each other. In the second year, that is, March 1783, the lawsuit was brought to the general meeting. In front of Carmen of the asset management company.

At that time, Carmen was busy cooperating with Lorraine to restart Kenway's relationship network, preparing to enter the American market in one go after the dust settled in Paris...

Coffee or tea?

She happily said that the choice of drinks is the supreme authority given to designers by God, and even the king has no right to interfere.

Haite Shipyard must be responsible for this disagreement. The shipyard accounting office needs to formulate a new budget for the pantry worth 5 pounds 11 shillings a month, while providing coffee and tea for designers to mix and drink.

The union has won, a great victory, a victory for the workers!

[Houwan No Tea Union] and [Coffee to Death Union] became famous. From March to July 1783, they expanded to 152 and 133 people respectively. They organized 6 rallies, 2 strikes, and 42 times. After negotiation, the struggle passed [the designer does not need to squeeze the carriage, the shipyard is equipped with a shuttle bus], [the designer’s dormitory is replaced with a new drawing table and brighter kerosene lamp], [the designer should wear a tuxedo to work], [the dock is no smoking, And set up a free smoking area] and a series of major resolutions.

These two unions with their fathers and mothers married let the capitalist Lorraine feel the crisis no less than the pirates.

He knew that the promotion and control of labor associations had become one of the most pressing events before the Chamber of Commerce.

He offered his trump card.

Acharin, who is widely sought after among seamen, Pierce, who is deeply loved among students, and Leonard, who has recognition and love among clerks, began to secretly agitate the union and at the same time began to look for leaders.

The autumn of 1783 became the union season of the Drake Chamber of Commerce. A total of 27 new unions were established and more than 5,900 employees joined.

Lorraine controlled the largest three branches and the core six branches. While striving to promote the establishment of the Federation of Trade Unions, he began to formulate trade union regulations and raise the authority of the controlled trade union among employees.

Under his control, these nine trade unions have been at the forefront of the times in their struggle with capitalists, and have won 47 adjustments that are beneficial to employees, of which 6 have decided to promote them in the Chamber of Commerce.

1. Employees have the freedom to arrange their work and rest time freely. The originally fixed half-day holiday per week is cancelled, and employees enjoy two days of free holiday a month, with pay;

2. The employee has the responsibility of taking care of the family. In principle, the daily working hours are no more than 14 hours, and they do not work overtime without reason. They work overtime voluntarily and get double remuneration;

3. Employees have the right to be recognized, and each birthday should get extra holidays of the same nature as Christmas, with pay;

4. Female employees have the freedom to give birth. Their first two children after marriage should receive 15 days of paid leave and the longest 30 days of unpaid leave. They cannot be expelled during pregnancy; male employees have 15 days of their first child after marriage Paid paternity leave;

Fifth, long-term workers under the Chamber of Commerce industry should abolish the deed of selling one's life, and let them choose their lives freely to show the difference from slaves;

Sixth, the trade union should be respected. The trade union with more than 100 members and the elected council should get its own office. The council members should have no less than 24 hours a month to serve their members in the office with pay.

These six resolutions allowed the union controlled by Lorraine to become the leader among employees. The union and the union have begun to move and merge, and the opportunity to establish a federation of unions has emerged.

Lorraine set aside a clearing in Miami, where six worker communities, a workers square and the Drake General Union Building will be built.

In the next stage, he intends to put the Federation of Trade Unions on the agenda and establish an independent budget, staffing and administrative appropriations to support the Federation of Trade Unions' off-production operations.

This is a big issue, and the unions need to work harder to fight for it. It needs to organize at least 4 strikes, 10 rallies, and expulsion of 10 to 20 people from Lorraine in 1785.

Then, the Federation of Trade Unions can bring out the trade union operating regulations that have been discussed for one year and five months.

Employees affected by North American freedom will settle down happily, of course, that’s something to be said.

At this stage, the controlled unions no longer simply act as a hindrance to capital management. Lorraine and his partners have begun to learn to use them. They have made communication simple and made many things that were previously impossible or difficult to do become reality.

Today’s Christmas overtime is a good example.

The General Flagship Seamen's Union is one of the most well-developed trade unions in the entire chamber of commerce. It has 517 members, including all sailors on board, some pier workers in the dedicated berth of Lucy Wharf, and some designers and shipbuilders in Haite Shipyard No. 1 dock. , The 12 directors are basically all seafarers on the ship, those who have long-term appointments or above, who assist Lorraine and his team in commanding the ship's outstanding sailors.

Barto was originally their head, but as Barto was upgraded to a partner, they only took two days to select a new leader, a deputy chief of sailing named Edley.

Lorraine told Barto when he set sail in Stavanger that Valkyrie would be at sea this Christmas.

The union immediately played the role of a communication bridge and persuaded every sailor to voluntarily apply for abandoning the festival.

They won a special Christmas allowance of three pounds per person for the sailors, and it was Karen who was in charge of negotiating with Barto.

Karen is a good capitalist who sincerely considers workers. He waved his hand and raised the allowance to five pounds...

This result made the sailors rejoice. Lorraine declined to comment, and Carmen sneered.

A Christmas Eve buffet was held on the ship last night. Karen was put on his stomach three times by the sailors. He fell into the sea from the ship at night and broke his arm.

This result made the sailors rejoice, Lorraine declined to comment, and Carmen sneered.

However, the mood of the sailors did show surprising health. Pierce said more than once that he wanted to set up a secret service team and seamen's union.

He received more than 80 petitions on Christmas, without exception, they all hoped that the fleet would find a pier nearby. Even if they missed Christmas Eve, the sailors wanted to spend Christmas on the shore...

In other words, how long will it take to float at sea?

Pierce looked depressed at Lorraine's back: "Brother...Admiral, it's been 5 days..."

"Can't wait? Still can't hold the sailors?" Lorraine smiled and turned back.

Pierce's shoulders fell suddenly: "both, but mainly sailors, they don't need money..."

"So I told you very early to see your identity as a capitalist. Prestige will not always be useful. You will need workers to speak for you."

"Yes…"

Seeing Pierce had a feeling, Lorraine knocked on his head.

"In Cape Town, I let Eddie disembark and the Sunflower who carried the captives was waiting for him at the dock. He will invite someone who is vital to our next operations, and when he comes, we can start. ."

Before he had finished his words, the shouts of the ship looked out.

"Admiral, Southwest Ship Shadow, the logo confirms the Sunflower, and accepts applications for admission."

"Allowed to enter." Lorraine simply replied, "Ling Xiangyanghua connect with Valkyrie."

"The admiral's order, the Sunflower connects to the ship, clears the starboard side within 10 minutes, and the stormtroopers are on standby and execute!"