Since employees protested in June 5438+1October 65438+September, 4,400 employees have signed protest petitions, accounting for more than 90% of the total number of employees.
H3C employees have been protesting HP's appointment of Mao Yunan for nearly five days, and the rational confrontation continues. On the one hand, H3C employees insist, on the other hand, HP does not compromise.
65438+1On the morning of October 23rd, under the great pressure of HP's management, H3C employees finally completed the election of employees' congress, and selected * * * 38 employees from various systems of the company in strict accordance with the process.
Different from the employee protests of foreign-funded companies in the past, the working hours, scale and influence of H3C are rare in recent years.
"In the past three days, I have seen that the Pakistan incident is developing in a healthy direction. The stairs were only blocked for about half an hour; On the first day, there was a personal attack banner on the wall, and it was removed the next day; I was still desperately singing red songs two days ago, and on the third day I began to discuss the election of employee representatives. " This is an employee of H3C's overall impression of the protest process in the first three days on his official WeChat account.
Two days ago, on June 65438+1October 2 1, Wang Wei, vice president and marketing president of Hangzhou, as a veteran, gave a 30-minute speech. He clearly stated his position: he recognized and supported the core appeal of H3C employees, that is, fighting for employees' rights and interests and letting Mao Yunan go. Wang Wei believes that employees should have the right to know, suggest and even veto on major events, and should * * * enjoy the fruits of the company's development, such as everyone holding shares, and strive for more employee benefits.
As for Mao Yunan himself, Wang Wei said that he would not accept any position in Huasan, "because I don't think his ability matches H3C." Wang Wei described this mismatch as "even the best thoracic surgeon is not suitable for brain surgery".
In order to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of workers' rights protection, Wang Wei suggested that the election of workers' congress should be started immediately, and the elected members should be responsible for collecting workers' opinions comprehensively. "If this employee action is successful, I will resign as the president of the domestic market and transfer to serve the rights and interests of employees." Wang Wei emphasized that the new post may be more important to H3C.
Wang Wei's speech brought a lot of confidence to H3C employees, but it also pushed himself to the forefront.
Shortly after his first speech, HP officials interviewed Wei Wang on the 20th floor of H3C headquarters. Wang Wei revealed that they said, "For the sake of Hua San, you should stick to your post." On the one hand, I want to support the employee's protest, on the other hand, I want to avoid the normal operation of H3C from being greatly affected, which makes Wei Wang's heart very tangled.
1On the morning of October 22nd, Wang Wei was elected as the employee representative.
65438+1At noon on October 22nd, the relevant person in charge of HP communicated with Wei Wang and gave him three choices. First, I proposed that I was in poor health and took the initiative to resign; Second, Wang Wei was dismissed and compensated for his poor performance in the last two quarters of the fiscal year; The third is to dismiss immediately.
Wang Wei didn't agree with these three articles, but about two hours later, he waited for an HP HR document from H3C, saying that Wang Wei, the marketing president of H3C, decided to be fired because of the losses he had brought to the company. However, this email only stayed for less than half an hour and was deleted from H3C's server. Perhaps HP realized that such an approach would only arouse the greater anger of H3C employees.
According to the statistics of China, since employees protested on June 5438+1October 65438+September 9, 4,400 employees have signed protest petitions, accounting for more than 90% of the total employees.
An employee of H3C told the interface journalist that H3C's sense of ownership weakened by capital changes in recent years has returned, and now everyone is particularly United. However, it is still unknown whether H3C can "beat" the powerful HP and win the final victory.
It's never easy to make HP compromise. Judging from HP's current actions, it is only to send relevant responsible persons to communicate with some personnel of H3C to give comfort. From beginning to end, it didn't show whether the two core demands put forward by H3C employees were met, and no other solutions were put forward.
According to the interface journalist, H3C currently has 5,000 employees, of which R&D personnel account for 55%. "The real core assets of R&D are intellectual property rights, core codes and hardware modules. People are really not important. They can take it to the United States and kick out all the existing manpower. " H3C employees analyzed the possible impact of HP's transfer of H3C shares on R&D business.
According to various sources, HP plans to merge the server businesses of China Telecom and HP China into a new H3C, and sell 565,438+0% of the shares to CEC or other China companies for billions of dollars, with HP holding 49% of the shares. And Mao Yunan is the operator of this plan.
The longer the protest drags on, the lighter HP's bargaining chip may become.
Regarding whether HP will delay the protest, an employee of H3C said in an interview with an interface journalist, "We have always insisted that the initial demands will not change and the follow-up actions will be organized by employee representatives."
At the suggestion of Wang Wei, starting from next week, employees of H3C will return to their posts to continue the work of ba, hoping that the company's customers and partners will not suffer losses due to this incident.
Interface journalists also verified and interviewed HP on this matter, but as of press time, they have not received a reply from HP.
According to the New Financial Observer, "boycott Mao Yunan as chairman of H3C"! Under this collective appeal, most employees of H3C held a week-long protest with their parent company Hewlett-Packard. On the one hand, it is the persistence of employees, on the other hand, it is the strength of HP. After communication and consultation, they will not compromise each other.
Protest storm
65438+1October 19 In the headquarters of Hangzhou Huasan Communication Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Huasan Communication), a horizontal board of Huasan employees' proposal was erected. Lin Jiansheng stepped forward and signed his name. Before him, the name of H3C employees had been written all over this proposal.
On this day, H3C employees began a large-scale protest. From Hangzhou headquarters to Beijing branch and local offices, most employees of H3C held "strikes" and "protests". Banners such as "employee stock ownership", "safeguarding employee rights and interests" and "protecting collective fruits" are spread all over the company.
Up to now, more than 90% employees have signed the protest petition, and the number of signatures has reached 4400.
The storm originated from HP China's announcement of personnel adjustment for H3C management. According to the new appointment plan, Mao Yunan, the chairman of HP China, will also be the chairman of H3C, and Matt Greenly, the former chairman, will be the vice chairman. The existing H3C management team, including President and CEO Wu Jingchuan, COO Cao Xiang Ying and CFO Ying Kit Lo, will report to Mao Yunan and Matt Greenlee.
This move was unanimously opposed by H3C from the employee level to the management level.
"In fact, H3C didn't know the new appointment of HP China before. Our employees also know through the information released by the outside world that Mao Yunan will also serve as the chairman of the company. " Lin Jiansheng told the new financial reporter.
"The reason why employees spontaneously boycott Mao Yunan is because Mao Yunan will sell H3C by means of capital operation regardless of the interests of employees and the development of the company." As an old employee of H3C for ten years, Lin Jiansheng personally experienced the process of H3C changing owners many times.
Now, he and most of his colleagues say that they no longer want "H3C to be sold".
Data show that H3C has a history of 12 years since its establishment. IT mainly provides R&D, production, sales and services of IT infrastructure products and solutions, with an annual turnover of over10 billion yuan and more than 5,000 patent applications (nearly 90% are invention patents), occupying the top spot in the domestic enterprise network market.
The new financial reporter learned that H3C was originally a joint venture between Huawei and 3COM. Later, Huawei sold its shares in H3C to 3COM, and H3C became a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3COM. 20 10 HP acquired 3COM, and H3C was also acquired by HP. At present, HP holds 0/00% of H3C/KLOC.
According to Lin Jiansheng, just after Mao Yunan took office, it is said that Mao Yunan made an integration plan for HP, in which HP China and H3C may be integrated, packaged and sold. Lin Jiansheng believes that this method will greatly weaken the value of H3C.
According to the data, Mao Yunan is the chairman of HP China, and previously served as the president of Alcatel-Lucent Greater China, the CEO of Nortel Networks Greater China and the CEO of 3COM Company. It was he who led the sale of 3COM to HP at that time, and it was because of this transaction that H3C became a wholly-owned subsidiary of HP.
A letter to all employees widely circulated in H3C also mentioned the acquisition led by Mao Yunan, but the evaluation was very low.
According to the letter, in 20 10, H3C, which is controlled by 3COM, implemented the employee stock ownership plan, and most employees had equity incentives. However, when Hewlett-Packard acquired 3COM, the employee's equity incentive was not guaranteed, and Mao Yunan benefited more than 20 million dollars from it.
This move is also considered by most employees such as Lin Jiansheng that Mao Yunan will not take into account the interests of ordinary employees in capital operation.
In addition, the direct reason for boycotting Mao Yunan is that Mao Yunan will parachute into H3C with his core team, which means that the original first-level team of H3C will be purged and laid off, including marketing and research and development.
The negotiations were fruitless.
Boycott Mao Yunan, this is the first appeal, but also the core appeal. On the morning of June 5438+1October 2/KLOC-0, Wang Wei, Vice President and President of Marketing Department of H3C, gave a public speech at H3C headquarters. He came straight to the point: "Mao Yunan was fired."
Wang Wei is the direct leader of Zhou Tianhua.
"Mr. Wang's words represent the collective aspiration of our H3C employees. Of course, he was also treated unfairly because of this speech. " Zhou Tianhua told the new financial reporter.
In this speech, which was highly praised by H3C employees, Wang Wei said: "I personally declare once again that I will not accept Mr. Mao Yunan to hold any post in H3C, because I think his ability does not match H3C (synonymous with H3C)."
Of course, apart from "Mao Yunan's resignation", Zhou Tianhua said that there are two other employees' collective demands this time. First, re-elect trade union representatives; Second, full shareholding.
"After we started the protest on 65438+ 10 19, HP China sent representatives to contact the company's top management on the same day. The original plan was to start negotiation and communication at 4 pm that day, but for some reason, it was postponed until 8 am the next day. " Zhou Tianhua recalled that HP was represented by Matt Greenly, chairman of Yuan Hua Sanxun.
However, no progress has been made in the negotiations.
According to Zhou Tianhua, during the negotiation on 20th, the H3C temporary employee representative meeting collected the core demands of employees and handed them to Matt Greenly. After communicating with HP's senior management, Matt Greenly replied to H3C's temporary employee representative that Mao Yunan's appointment could not be revoked.
"This article seriously violates the core demands of our employees. In addition, regarding employee stock ownership, HP's answer is that it will consider long-term equity incentives for H3C employees. Obviously, this answer is vague. " Zhou Tianhua said that HP had made similar promises as early as 20 10, but they all became empty talk.
As a result, this round of dialogue between the two sides did not have any possibility of reconciliation.
"In the dialogue on the 20th, the representative of Hewlett-Packard Company said that if the two sides could not reach an agreement, H3C would face the risk of being shut down. However, due to HP's reply, the employees' demands could not be solved at all, which led to the two sides breaking up in discord. In fact, there was no further communication after this round of dialogue. " Zhou Tianhua said.
In fact, after the conversation, Wang Wei, vice president and president of marketing department of H3C, made Zhou Tianhua and other employees of H3C feel unreasonable.
It is understood that Wang Wei was naturally elected as an employee representative in public the next morning after giving a speech and gaining the support of employees.
But at noon that day, the relevant person in charge of HP communicated with Wei Wang and gave him three choices. First, let him put forward that he is in poor health and take the initiative to resign; Second, Wang Wei was dismissed and compensated for his poor performance in the last two quarters of the fiscal year; The third is to dismiss immediately.
Wang Wei didn't agree to these three articles, but about two hours later, he was waiting for an HR document from Huasan Communication Server, saying that Wang Wei, president of the marketing department of Huasan Company, had been dismissed because Wang Wei himself had brought losses to the company.
Dramatically, in less than 15 minutes, this expulsion notice was revoked.
"At that time, a colleague saw the news that Wang Wei was dismissed from the bulletin board of the company's human resources department and expressed great dissatisfaction. The news only stayed for a while, and then disappeared. Perhaps HP realizes that this practice will cause everyone's resentment. " Zhou Tianhua said.
Due to HP's strong communication and unsustainable large-scale protests, Zhou Tianhua's next step is to return to his post from this week and fight in his seat.
"On the one hand, under the great pressure of management, on the morning of June 23, 65438, we finally completed the election of the workers' congress, and selected * * * 38 employees from various systems of the company in strict accordance with the process. These employee representatives will be responsible for communicating with HP and safeguarding the rights and interests of employees; In addition, we will also rely on a professional legal team. " Zhou Tianhua said.
In fact, due to the protests in the past week, except for the maintenance and supply of H3C's key customer equipment and its ongoing project expansion, all other businesses have basically stagnated.
Capital Games
It's not just H3C that is deeply affected.
In response to this employee protest, HP has issued a response: "HP recently released some organizational restructuring, and a few employees expressed their dissatisfaction with this adjustment. The management team has met with these employees to understand their concerns, and our customers and partners will not be disturbed. "
Behind the bleak response, HP is planning a major asset sale. It plans to merge its wholly-owned H3C company and HP's server business in China into a new H3C company, and sell 565,438+0% shares to two or five China enterprises, with HP retaining 49% shares. The asset was sold for billions of dollars, and the trader was Mao Yunan.
This is also the original intention of HP to insist on appointing Mao Yunan as the chairman of H3C.
Since "information security" became the mainstream voice of China's informatization, the background of foreign capital holding has gradually embarrassed H3C. It is understood that in 20 14, China Mobile and China Telecom started centralized procurement of routers and switches one after another, with little gain in H3C. In addition to the operator market, the government and finance, the two major profit sources of H3C, have also been greatly affected.
In fact, H3C's talents, taxes, intellectual property rights and products are all in China. As long as it has the status of China Holding Company, its embarrassment in the market can be solved.
This is why HP has been looking for opportunities to sell H3C shares in recent years. In fact, many China capitals want to buy H3C from HP, such as China Electronics (CEC), a central enterprise. However, due to the package acquisition plan given by Mao Yunan and the fact that HP wants to occupy the largest shareholder seat, it is very difficult for China Capital.
"CEC may not want HP China, because there is not much value. Mao Yunan's strategy maximizes HP's interests without considering the development of H3C, which is equivalent to forcibly integrating two unrelated companies. HP China's development in China is not good. Once merged, many old employees of Huasan may be kicked out of the company. " Lin Jiansheng said.
An industry insider told the New Financial Reporter that the longer the employee protests of H3C drag on, the lighter the bargaining chip for HP to sell H3C may be.
However, it is precisely because HP intends to sell H3C, which indirectly led to employee protests.
It is easy to understand that once the capital level of H3C changes again, the shareholding and listing plan that once brought employees infinite expectations may be lost or in the foreseeable future.
"It is for this reason that our employees, while protesting, expect the company to implement the full shareholding plan as soon as possible to ensure the rights and interests of employees." Lin Jiansheng said that as a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard, H3C maintained its operational independence after many changes of ownership, but in essence, the management and all employees of H3C did not have much say.
(In the text, Lin Jiansheng and Zhou Tianhua are pseudonyms)