A escort car is generally equipped with four escorts and two shotguns, each loaded with three or four bullets. We often see escorts wearing camouflage uniforms and holding shotguns by ATM machines on the roadside. More or less, we all "walk around the point". Compared with the general security personnel, they give people a more "mighty" feeling. "In our eyes, escort is a mysterious industry." The head of a joint-stock bank office told reporters when talking about the strike of Zhongshan escorts.
The only task of a bank escort is to get the money back safely (put it in the vault) and send it out safely (for example, put it in an ATM). It can be said that they are more likely to be dissatisfied with their "low income" after dealing with huge amounts of cash for a long time. The media also used the headline that "the monthly salary of the armored car army is only 2,000 yuan and hundreds of millions of cash are spent every day" to compare the mismatch between their income and the industries they are exposed to.
If the escort with a gun is bigger, he still looks more dignified.
On the one hand, people who hold guns can enhance their self-confidence; On the other hand, long-term immersion in the banking industry may stimulate the desire for wealth. These two aspects affect "our income is low" and "our life is not decent", which will only worsen our understanding.
But according to the "market" pricing, bank escorts can only get so much at present.
Judging from the recruitment information of various escort companies, they are recruiting the most common security guards.
Taking the largest security service enterprise in Beijing as an example, the conditions for Beijing Zhenyuan to recruit bank escorts are: 1, male, age 19-35 years old, able to accept closed militarized management, and veterans are preferred; 2, junior high school education or above, can speak Mandarin; 3, height 1.68 meters or more, with regular facial features, good health, no obvious scars, no tattoos; 4, no mental illness, personality disorder, no history of chronic diseases and infectious diseases; 5, no misdeeds, no criminal record.
Such recruitment conditions are basically summed up in four words: "male, young". This is no different from the requirement of any enterprise to recruit security guards. As for "veterans first", this is an expectation for escort companies. Such people are often highly valued in escort companies, and the upward path is relatively smooth. However, according to an industry insider in Guangzhou, "Many years ago, escorts were basically veterans. Now it is difficult to recruit veterans because of the salary problem. "
According to the person in charge of Zhongshan Escort Branch, which also went on strike last year, nearly half of the escorts in the company were recruited from social youth, and after 60 days of training, they can take guns to their posts.
Judging from the occupational hazards, they are not even more dangerous than ordinary security guards as advertised.
As long as a certain type of work is associated with maintaining "safety", we often think that such work is "unsafe". But statistics may not support this understanding.
When the media reported the strike, it was generally mentioned that the escort business was risky, which was intended to show that the "low income" of escort was even more unreasonable. But is bank escort in China really risky? Judging from the two attributes of holding a gun and protecting money, it does give people such a feeling. However, in recent years, there are only a handful of cases of robbing bank armored vehicles in China. After sorting out, from 2003 to now, there are only four cases (incomplete statistics) in which two cases were the gun fire incident of Guangzhou escort on February 8 this year and 20 10. Another case is that the escort and driver of a bank in Handan were shot dead last year, but the result of the investigation afterwards was that the escort committed suicide after shooting the driver because of personal contradictions. Only in 2003, Qianjiang, Hubei Province robbed a bank with a gun, resulting in the death of two bank escorts on the spot.
Generally speaking, there is no evidence to support that bank escorts are high-risk occupations. In the big field of security, they are not necessarily more dangerous than the security of the community. For example, if the community security guards want to work night shifts, they may encounter "dangerous sources" such as thieves and fights.
Judging from the labor intensity and living conditions, the security practitioners as a whole are "high-intensity, continuous rotation and poor living".
In addition to complaining about low income, bank escorts are also dissatisfied with the labor intensity and living environment (welfare) under low income. "The accommodation conditions are very poor, and 20 people live in a dormitory of about 20 square meters, with a berth of 10; 10 dormitory has 5 beds, only about 10 square meter. I have to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and get off work at 8 o'clock in the evening. I can only take a break. "
However, in the security industry, the general rule is to get up early and be greedy for the dark, work in two shifts and live in dormitories, which is determined by the characteristics of the security industry as a service industry. We have never seen a 9-to-5 in China. On weekends, there are security guards in the company dormitory. It's not that security guards in China shouldn't be treated like this, but in a fully competitive market environment, due to your substitutability and relatively cheap manpower, it gradually evolved into such an industry mechanism.
Under the above circumstances, the overall income of bank escorts has been higher than that of the security group, and there is not much room for growth.
According to Xie Qiang, the escort of this strike, if he only takes four days off every month, his monthly salary is about 365,438+000 yuan. According to the survey data of a recruitment agency in Guangzhou at the end of 20 13, the average salary of security guards in Guangzhou is 2525 yuan/month.
According to a recruitment agency in Guangzhou, at the end of 20 13, the monthly income of the most people in Guangzhou was between 2000 and 3000.
Looking at the data of Beijing and Shanghai, according to the recruitment information of large classified websites in China, the starting salary of bank escorts in Beijing is between 3,500 and 4,500 yuan, while that of bank escorts in Shanghai is between 3,500 and 4,000 yuan, which is at least 500 to 1000 yuan higher than that of security guards in the same city. I asked the security guard of a portal website, 80 yuan, whose daily salary is 65438+.
Looking at the data of 20 13 of a large human resources institution in China and comparing the income of Bank of Beijing and other security groups (security guards, supervisors, captains, etc.), we can find that the escort is in the highest position. ) After working for three years.
Based on the escort company's low requirements for escort recruitment, the risk of escort is not as great as expected, and the security groups to which escort belongs are generally high-intensity and low-welfare. Based on the fact that the income of escort has exceeded the average level of security groups at present, it is not difficult to find that there is not much room for escort to raise salary.
Even if the monopoly of local government departments on the escort industry is liberalized, it may not necessarily increase the income of escort personnel.
There is only one escort company in a place, so the escort has less bargaining space.
Most financial escort services in Guangzhou are undertaken by Suibao Escort. Suibao Escort official website shows that the company currently provides services for six professional banks, including China, agriculture, industry, construction, communications, etc. 16, with a market coverage rate of 90% in Guangzhou, and provides escort services for expressway toll stations, gas stations and dozens of enterprises and institutions in Guangzhou and surrounding areas.
What is the background of Suibao Escort, which took over the financial escort business in Guangzhou? Official website of the company shows that Suibao Escort is an escort agency directly led and managed by Guangzhou Public Security Bureau.
In fact, at present, most domestic escort companies are self-run enterprises of local public security systems, and corporate legal persons are generally the heads of public security departments of local public security systems. Another example is the Zhenyuan Security Center in Beijing, which is directly led and managed by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. It is the only enterprise in Beijing that provides professional armed escort and escort services.
China's banks have implemented the market-oriented reform of custody business for more than ten years. However, Ma Weihua, president of China Merchants Bank, said that the impact was minimal. He believes that "the public security background of the escort company is still very deep. Although the Regulations on the Administration of Security Services clearly stipulates that public security organs should withdraw from the escort business, allow qualified escort companies to operate across regions, and open the escort service market to all kinds of capital, at present, the operation mode of the escort market in most areas is still that the local and county-level public security organs set up escort companies to take charge of the escort work within their respective jurisdictions, and the application for social capital to participate in new escort companies has basically not been approved. "
In the case that there is only one escort company in a place, the escorts who are familiar with the escort business can only "hang from a tree", which reduces the chance of job-hopping and bargaining space.
However, increasing the number of escort companies will also dilute the company's profits and affect the bargaining power of escort companies.
So is the market-oriented reform of the escort industry beneficial to the income of escort personnel? Not necessarily. Because Ma Weihua once complained that "there is only one escort company in one place" makes banks "suffer from the disorderly rise of custody service charges". In other words, if the escort industry is marketized, the bargaining power of banks will be improved and the profits of escort companies will be less. As a result, although employees have more job-hopping opportunities, they will still move around to companies with low profits, and there is not much room for income growth.
If "voting with your feet" fails, "voting with your hands" becomes a means.
Outside the market, you can also "vote by hand" to increase your income.
Job-hopping is the most direct way for employees to express their dissatisfaction with enterprises, commonly known as "voting with their feet", which belongs to market-oriented means; Put pressure on the management to raise wages and benefits by means of go-slow, stop work and strike. This is called "voting by hand". Around the world, workers generally rely on "hands and feet" to increase their income. This escort strike, which ended with a general salary increase in 600 yuan, showed the effect of "using both hands and feet".