Chapter 577 (1/2)
Jerry Speyer left the company's headquarters almost in a mess.
James rabold took Speer out of the room, went back to the conference room, and said to Simon, who was sitting in the same place and flipped through an evening paper that girl a had just delivered: ”there's no need to be so stiff.”
Simon spread the newspaper on his desk, looked at James and said, ”Jim, I'm a fat sheep in many people's eyes, right?”
James didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Simon didn't wait for the other party to answer, and said to himself, ”that's the truth. I don't mind that they treat me as a fat sheep. As long as they cooperate with Simon westero, it's really easier to make a lot of money. However, if someone thinks that I'm really just a fat sheep to be slaughtered, and they don't need to pay enough in return for taking my money, or even turn away from others, I will not only let them spit out all the things that have eaten me, but also destroy all their original things. ”
At the beginning, Simon contracted the construction of westero building to the other party just because of the influence of Iron Lion Gate in New York. In order to ensure the quality of the construction of the westero building, the quotation is rather generous rather than fussy.
From the beginning, the Speer family had the ability to stop this incident.
Not only did the other party not do so, but he didn't even inform the Westeros company. Instead, he was a spectator, which made Simon totally intolerable.
In the final analysis, the other side just regards him as a fat sheep, a nouveau riche who lacks the inside information. Simon can't help them even if he thinks he has taken advantage of it and doesn't care about it. He may even have to give more benefits to the other party to help coordinate.
It was on his way to New York that he made this clear. Simon was so rude to Jerry Speyer just now, and he even went head to head.
As for David Dinkins, Simon didn't plan to give up.
In fact, the westrow system did not have much practical appeal when it supported David Dinkins to run for mayor of New York. It was more just to expand its influence in politics.
Simon doesn't expect much in return from the other party, but he will never tolerate a politician turning his face off easily.
Otherwise, if all the other politicians supported by the westrow system follow suit, Simon may become a big joke in the eyes of some people.
James Leibold is also very angry about what happened in recent days. Of course, he also understands what Simon can sort out. Just as a middle-aged man with too much experience, he habitually wants to resolve this matter by a more moderate means.
This is because the development strategy of westero system is to keep a low profile.
This time, Simon is not going to give up.
I stayed in the manor on the outskirts of Greenwich that night. However, some people who were interested obviously found that the lights in the manor villa did not go out overnight, and even some people came in and out of the manor at more than one o'clock in the morning.
People with a keen sense of smell even feel that a mountain rain is coming.
Early the next morning, Simon received a message from the White House. Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton, personally called James rabble and asked him to tell Simon not to act rashly at the critical moment of the New York mayor's campaign.
New York is the home of the Democratic Party.
In the past 30 years, the Democratic Party has always held the post of mayor of New York, so it is also an important position that the Democratic Party can not afford to lose.
After a page of noise, Simon didn't make any action immediately.
So, one day, two days, three days, when many people thought that westero was going to stop, before Simon's ultimatum, westero building project quietly resumed.
As the fuse of the whole incident, the resumption of the westero building immediately triggered one-sided accusations from the media.
More than one-third of the construction progress of the westero building has been completed. The municipal government is very embarrassed in the face of media questioning, but the authorities did not consider to shut down the westero building at first, because it is a huge investment project, with more than 3000 workers living on the salary of the building construction.
However, the investigation on the safety problems involved in the construction site of the westero building will not stop.
the city government talks about the job of construction workers, which immediately makes many people speechless.
However, the New York Post immediately revealed a piece of information. Before the incident, nearly half of the 3000 employees on the construction site of the westero building were illegal immigrants from Eastern European countries. The New York Post also published a large number of workers' time sheets and other evidence, and found the testimony of these illegal workers in the gathering area of Jersey City and many workers involved in the construction.
As the contractor of the building, Iron Lion Gate immediately denied the report of the New York Post.
The use of illegal labor has always been a hidden rule in the American construction industry.
Because formal workers are too expensive, especially union members. Illegal workers are often paid a fifth or less than regular union members, and do more. Therefore, for contractors, the use of illegal labor naturally means more profits. ‘Although the construction workers' Union in the United States is strong, it is in fact acquiescent to this state.
On the one hand, it is the result of the long-term interest game between the labor union and the management. On the other hand, it is also the situation that the construction workers in the United States often lack of labor.
The construction worker is definitely a dangerous and tired man. The well-off Americans are not willing to do this job. In a metropolis such as New York, the city dwellers who pursue dignity are even less willing to do this job, so there is a relative shortage of construction workers, and construction companies can only use illegal workers.
In order to return to work before Simon's ultimatum, iron lion gate has to temporarily replace all workers with union members this time. The original quotation of westero and Iron Lion Gate will not change, which obviously means that the profits will shrink greatly.
However, the traces of large-scale use of illegal labor in the past can not be erased.
With the ”New York Post” provoking this topic, even if we understand some of the hidden rules of the industry, the news industry has never lacked the media to challenge the rules, so we have to follow up.
Although some people have a hunch of something.
The New York Post. This is News Corp.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has always had a very friendly relationship with the westero system, and the two sides have cooperated in many aspects.
What's more, the New York Post is still a tabloid that pays close attention to all kinds of gossip topics to a large extent. When did illegal labor become a very serious social problem?
Sober people are always in the minority.
Few people are able to keep up with the trend of most people's cognition.