Asia News reports on recent strikes around China:
Fresh strikes have broken out in mainland China, this time in the affluent Yangtze River Delta, where hundreds of workers clashed with police on Monday morning trying to forcibly stop their sit-in outside a rubber factory near Shanghai. Meanwhile, a strike at a Honda-affiliated plant in the city of Foshan looks set to continue for a third day. The strike, involving more than 250 of the 300 workers at the Foshan Fengfu Autoparts plant, brought in heavy police deployment.
Demonstrators said they were inspired by the two-week strike by fellow workers in the manufacturing sector, which yielded a 500-yuan pay raise.
Workers, in addition to this raise, want their union representative removed, saying that he is management and thus cannot be a trade union official.
In China, trade unions exist but they are under tight party, hence, government control.
Read more about recent labor unrest via CDT.
