New strike in China affects Toyota supplier

A strike at a parts supplier for Japanese cars in southern China forced Toyota Motor Corp to suspend production at an assembly plant on Tuesday, the latest in a series of interruptions on labor issues in foreign manufacturing in the country.
Since Tuesday morning, is suspended work at the Toyota plant, which has an annual capacity of 360,000 units and which makes models such as Camry and Yaris, said a company spokesman.

"No decision on when production will resume," said Toyota spokeswoman, Ririko Takeuchi.

The auto parts supplier, Denso (Guangzhou Nansha) Co. Ltd, is owned by Japan's Denso Corp, and is affiliated with Toyota Motor Corp.
The strike at the Denso plant, located in the booming Chinese province of Guangdong, is the latest in a series of industrial actions in the country that present a complex challenge for the Communist Party government, which has pledged to improve revenues, but he has fear of protests.

The plant supplies fuel injection equipment and other products to customers such as Toyota and Honda Motor Co and has stopped sending parties since Monday, Denso spokeswoman, Yoko Suga.

Honda spokesman in China, Takayuki Fujii, said that if the cessation of production stood at Denso, also could end the inventory on suppliers of parts for Honda auto factories.
In recent weeks, strikes have broken out in a Honda supplier of locks in Gosei plant that makes parts for Toyota, and in Chongqing Brewery Co Ltd, among others. All have been resolved.

STRIKE will be maintained

The cessation of activities continue for the rest of the week, said a worker in the flat Denso, adding that employees are demanding a salary hike of between 1,100 and 1,300 yuan (161-191 dollars) per month between 1800 and 1,900 yuan.
"We have a good life here, but we believe that our pay should be linked to company performance," said one employee, who declined to be named for fear of reprisals. "The company makes a lot of money and should share the profit," he added.

The direction of the Denso plant was negotiating with the workers' demands for higher salaries and better benefits, Suga said. The firm has about 1,100 employees.