Chapter 43 Winning
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Braddock's Town Hall is a slightly obese L-shaped flat building, facing east and west. The top of L is on the east side, with two conference rooms, one large and one small, along the middle corridor, facing west, with some offices on both sides. The third room ahead of the Reconstruction Bureau is the Public Utilities Bureau.
The Utilities Bureau is almost outside the police station, the Braddock government has the most employees, with three full-time employees, and the same number of part-time staff subsidized by the finances.
When Wang Lei walked into the office of the Public Utilities Bureau, the people inside were not as busy as he saw when he was at the Reconstruction Bureau, but when they looked up and saw his new mayor, they still showed hostility and no one paid attention to it.
Emily and the others seemed to have left. They were indeed not suitable here. The place was too small and would affect work. But when Emily's mother Donna saw him, Donna leaned on the back of the chair with a wry smile: "Oh, Rex, you always surprise."
Donna is the director of the Public Utilities Bureau, but she does not have a separate office here, but like other staff members, she enjoys an open office partition.
Wang Lei walked to Donna's partition and smiled at her: "Haha, I'm doing what I think is right, follow our agreement..."
"No no no no no, Rex, you're making me embarrassed, you know, I've worked here for a long time, and they've worked very hard and excellent." Donna shook her head and pointed to the rest of the office.
Wang Lei once discussed with Donna that he needed someone to help him handle the daily affairs of the government. This person needed full-time work, familiar with the government work, and could cooperate well with him. He hoped that Donna could help him and serve as the assistant to the town mayor. After the two of them communicated, they reached a consensus on this issue.
But now, Donna seems to have changed her mind.
Wang Lei knew why. Donna was worried that Wang Lei’s butcher knife from the layoff agency would fall on the Public Utilities Bureau. She already had feelings for the staff here and did not want to abandon them at this time and cut them off in person.
Wang Lei shrugged, with a playful smile on his face: "Is that right? Actually, I'm also in a dilemma. In my plan, the reorganized town government should provide more and better services to residents. The Public Utilities Bureau will be the most important department. If you leave, I don't know who can take this responsibility, and whether the Public Utilities Bureau can continue to operate well..."
"Ah, are you saying that the Public Utilities Bureau will not be cut off?" Donna said loudly in surprise. Her voice was enough for everyone in the already small room to hear it clearly. They all looked over eagerly, wanting to know what Wang Lei would answer.
Wang Lei looked at them and nodded: "Yes, not only will it not be abolished, I also plan to merge some similar functions into a larger public utility bureau."
"Wow, that's great news." Donna smiled and patted her palms, then stood up from the chair and said to the others: "You all heard it. The New Town Mayor will not cut you. Should we celebrate it?"
The Public Utilities Bureau, including Donna, has a total of three full-time employees, three part-time jobs. Today, only one part-time job came, and they all cheered: "Mrs. Scott invites a buffet for lunch, and this news will be even better."
"I think she should treat her because I have appointed her as Braddock's assistant to the town mayor, temporary." Wang Lei said with a smile.
"Wow!" The employees of the Public Utilities Bureau cheered again, and Donna looked at Wang Lei dissatisfiedly: "Rex, I haven't agreed yet..."
"You will agree, right? Otherwise, I will lay off your people and make you unable to do anything to the director." Wang Lei pointed to the employees and joked.
Everyone also saw that a white woman who looked cheerful and not old was pleading: "Mrs. Scott, please agree. To save us suffering people, you agree."
"Just agree!" I heard that I would not be cut off, and everyone was very happy and followed up with the funny things.
Donna shook her head with a giggle and laughter: "It seems that I can't agree. Rex, I think you, as the mayor, can do a great job. Look, just a few minutes after you came, my subordinates stood there."
"Haha, as long as everyone can support my work, I will definitely succeed." Wang Lei clenched his fists and waved it in the air.
He had reason to be happy because of Donna's relationship, the Public Utilities Bureau may be the department with the best attitude towards him. Because of what he said at the parliamentary meeting, the Reconstruction Bureau should be the department that he hates the most. For these two departments, he adopted strategies of differentiation and disintegration and win over, and the effect seemed to be very good.
He never thought that these government employees were just a solid piece of the board, even if they had a small union organization - this organization is a branch of the Allegheny County Government Employees Union. The American trade union organization felt very strong, and they could even influence the presidential election. In this organization, about 60 or 70% of the employers of the membership were the US government, which means that the US trade union seemed to be turning into the US government Employees Union.
He is preparing to lay off about half of the redundant departments and personnel, but only half of them, and half of them will be retained. This gives them hope that they will not be laid off. Through competition, there is still a chance to stay. So can they still form a whole and go against Wang Lei? Obviously not.
The most critical part of this is that Wang Lei’s redundant practice has sufficient reasons for laying off redundancy, and there is no legal problem. After the news is made public, it will definitely receive support from the residents of the town. Those who want to cause trouble have no confidence at all. Except for some stubborn people, many people are definitely unwilling to make trouble.
Of course, if Wang Lei acts a little weaker and lets them continue to see the trouble, the institutional reform will be still in the womb, and many people will follow him. So Wang Lei cannot be soft at all. He must not only show his toughness and not only let them have any illusions, but also use flexible means to treat different departments and groups differently, and differentiate and disintegrate possible alliances.
If they do two-pronged approach, they won’t be able to make a fuss.
The reactions of the Reconstruction Bureau and the Public Affairs Bureau did not surprise Wang Lei. Although everyone was asking Donna to invite her to dinner, they ordered their own takeout in the end, Donna also agreed with them that she would have a party at home in a few days and ask everyone to play.
When Wang Lei saw that there was no free lunch, he was not in a hurry to go to other departments. He ran outside the town hall. Emily and the others were waiting for him in the parking lot. Colin and Wang Yang also arrived at this time, shouting to support him, but they had to fill their stomachs first.
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