(Baonghean.vn) - From 8pm onwards, the warehouses around Vinh market area become bustling. This is the working time of the porter team, including "special" workers: students from colleges and universities.
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| The work of porters usually starts at 8pm and ends at 11pm. When there is a lot of cargo, especially during holidays and Tet, they can work until 2 or 3am the next day. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
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| These students are mainly studying at universities and colleges located in Vinh city. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
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| Phan Van Thang (red shirt) is from Nghi My commune (Nghi Loc), currently a third-year student of the Automotive Technology department at a university in Vinh city. Last summer, Thang was invited by a friend in the same boarding house to unload goods at Vinh market. Realizing that this job is a bit hard and requires physical strength, but does not take too much time and is paid immediately, Thang continued to do it in his spare time and has been doing it until now. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
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| “To cover my daily expenses, and partly because I don’t want to rely too much on my parents, I do this job,” Phan Van Thang shared. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
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| In the Vinh market area, there are about 10 porter groups operating, but only about 5 groups operate "organized", meaning there is a group leader (also known as foreman) who takes on the work and assigns people, the remaining groups are spontaneous groups, forming and disbanding erratically. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
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| Mr. Nguyen Binh Ngan, leader of Thang's group, said that this group has about 20 students working, but because there is no bond between them, and because they have to be hard-working and patient to stick with this job, the workforce changes frequently. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
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| Each shipment will be paid from 500,000 VND to 2,000,000 VND or more, depending on the volume of goods, the wages will be divided equally among everyone in the group. With a truck carrying more than 30 tons of sugar, for each ton the owner pays 25,000 VND, on average in 1.5 hours each person in Thang's group loads 4 tons of goods and earns about 100,000 VND. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
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