STRIKES are flaring up in China with 900 workers walking of the job at the Brother sewing machine factory Xian and the Honda plant suffering another walkout, plus to Guangdong factory strikes ending with workers winning 25 per cent wage increases.
Last week truckers blocked the main road leading to Shenzhen port container terminals at Chiwan and Shekou to demand wage increases.
Elsewhere, staff at electronics producer Foxconn - which has seen a spate of suicides - are also claimed to have won big pay increases following their protest, reported London's Containerisation International.
Charles de Trenck, managing director of Hong Kong based transport consultancy Transport Trackers, said that wages were going up by as much as 50 per cent, and warned that claims that labour cost was only 10 per cent of a manufacturers' price were not accurate, adding that retail prices would inevitably rise in consequence.
Source : HKSG, 15.06.10.
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