New strike at a Honda supply plant
By Doug Young and Chang-Ran Kim |
June 9, 2010, Wednesday
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A new strike has broken out at a Chinese factory making exhaust systems for Honda Motor, prompting the car maker to plan a suspension at two local auto plants just days after a strike at another supplier was settled.
Workers at the exhaust factory, a joint venture between Japan's Yutaka Giken, which is 70 percent owned by Honda, and Taiwan-based Taoyuan Fuwei, had been on strike since the first shift on Monday, Yutaka Giken spokesman Kazuhito Anma said.
The factory in Foshan City in south China's Guangdong Province employs about 500 workers.
Honda spokeswoman Natsuno Asanuma said output would be suspended today at Guangqi Honda's two plants which build the Accord, Odyssey, City and Fit, due to a shortage of supply. Plans for today and beyond are still unknown, Asanuma said.
"We're hearing that the parts plant has started operating partially, but for Wednesday we are out of components," she said.
The plant makes mufflers and other exhaust parts for Honda's four Chinese car factories belonging to Guangqi Honda - a 50-50 joint venture between Honda and Guangzhou Automobile, Dongfeng Honda and an export-only factory that builds the Jazz subcompact.
The labor action at the plant, Foshan Fengfu Autoparts, began early on Monday when about 20 workers began rallying their colleagues to go on strike. The entire workforce had downed tools by yesterday afternoon, and management was negotiating with workers with the aim of restarting production as soon as possible, the Yutaka spokesman said.
Their action comes after workers at another plant supplying transmissions to Honda's China joint ventures received a pay rise last week after striking over wages, bringing Honda's car production in China to a halt.
"If their strike hadn't been successful, our workers here probably wouldn't be as united as we are now," the South China Morning Post quoted a 22-year-old worker from Hunan Province as saying.
Asian employers in general have become less attractive among foreign employers for Chinese workers, said Lin Huaibin, an industry analyst with IHS Global Insight.
"If you ask college graduates to pick their employers, most would pick US or European companies," Lin said.
Workers at the exhaust factory, a joint venture between Japan's Yutaka Giken, which is 70 percent owned by Honda, and Taiwan-based Taoyuan Fuwei, had been on strike since the first shift on Monday, Yutaka Giken spokesman Kazuhito Anma said.
The factory in Foshan City in south China's Guangdong Province employs about 500 workers.
Honda spokeswoman Natsuno Asanuma said output would be suspended today at Guangqi Honda's two plants which build the Accord, Odyssey, City and Fit, due to a shortage of supply. Plans for today and beyond are still unknown, Asanuma said.
"We're hearing that the parts plant has started operating partially, but for Wednesday we are out of components," she said.
The plant makes mufflers and other exhaust parts for Honda's four Chinese car factories belonging to Guangqi Honda - a 50-50 joint venture between Honda and Guangzhou Automobile, Dongfeng Honda and an export-only factory that builds the Jazz subcompact.
The labor action at the plant, Foshan Fengfu Autoparts, began early on Monday when about 20 workers began rallying their colleagues to go on strike. The entire workforce had downed tools by yesterday afternoon, and management was negotiating with workers with the aim of restarting production as soon as possible, the Yutaka spokesman said.
Their action comes after workers at another plant supplying transmissions to Honda's China joint ventures received a pay rise last week after striking over wages, bringing Honda's car production in China to a halt.
"If their strike hadn't been successful, our workers here probably wouldn't be as united as we are now," the South China Morning Post quoted a 22-year-old worker from Hunan Province as saying.
Asian employers in general have become less attractive among foreign employers for Chinese workers, said Lin Huaibin, an industry analyst with IHS Global Insight.
"If you ask college graduates to pick their employers, most would pick US or European companies," Lin said.
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