Production at a Honda assembly plant in southern China has resumed after workers demanding pay hikes ended a two-day strike, media reports said Friday. The Japanese auto giant is one of a number of foreign companies hit by industrial action in China as increasingly frustrated workers express their discontent at low pay and poor conditions.
The walkout halted production for part of Wednesday and Thursday at the export-focused Honda assembly plant in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, Dow Jones Newswires reported. It said Honda had agreed to raise workers pay, quoting company spokesman Takayuki Fujii as saying that the issue that caused the strike was "completely resolved". Fujii said the plan was operating as usual on Friday.
China's state news agency Xinhua, citing a Beijing-based company spokesman Zhu Linjie, also said the company management had reached agreement with the workers on salary rises. The plant, which is 65 percent owned by Honda with the remainder held by its Chinese partners, produces compact model Jazzcars for exports to European markets and has an annual capacity of 50,000 vehicles.
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