Japanese newspaper Nikkei reported Monday that carmakers Toyota, Nissan and Honda will cut production in China by about half, a sign of the economic fallout from the ongoing diplomatic dispute between Japan and China, though...
The strikes at Honda suppliers are ongoing in China. Reuters has the latest on a strike in Foshan: Stoppages at foreign-run factories across China by workers demanding pay increases disrupted operations for several weeks in May...
From the New York Times: On a hot morning in late May, while some 2,000 workers at a Honda parts factory were striking in China’s south, 100 irate employees at a hotel in the heart of the capital staged their own protest. The...
A Tianjin Toyota plant has been idled after a strike at one of its supplier factories. From the Wall Street Journal: Toyota Motor Corp. suspended production at an assembly plant in China on Friday because of a strike at a...
In the New York Times, David Barboza and Keith Bradsher write about the role of technology in the Honda Lock factory strike: It is labor revolt by text message and video upload, underwritten by the Chinese government. On...
Many workers conditionally returned to work at a Honda Lock plant on Monday. According to a New York Times article, factory workers “are threatening to go back on strike later this week if the company does not improve its...
From the New York Times: Tan Guocheng is hardly a self-styled labor leader. Age 23 and introverted, he grew up among rice paddies and orange groves far from China’s big factory towns. But last month, an hour into his shift at a...
From the New York Times: Factory managers began hiring a steady stream of replacement workers on Sunday, and a significant number of strikers went back to work after increases in wages and benefits, even as many others remained...
The New York Times has the latest on the strikes at Honda parts factories in China: Takayuki Fujii, a Honda spokesman in Beijing, said that the parts factory here in Zhongshan had resumed partial operations. But he said that he...
From the Washington Post: In Zhangshan, in southeastern China, about 1,700 workers at a Honda Lock factory, which makes locks and keys for Honda Motors, staged an unusual march through the city streets Friday morning, according...
The New York Times: There were fresh reports on Thursday of strikes at foreign-owned factories in at least five other cities. But all of these strikes appeared to have ended quickly as managers, faced with an acute labor...
Reuters reports: Honda, which sold 17 percent of its cars in China last year, has idled its four local factories on and off since May 24, since a first strike at a wholly owned transmissions maker in the southern city of Foshan....
Days after Honda reached an accord with striking workers at a parts plant in Foshan, another strike has broken out at another plant affiliated with the auto maker in the same city. From the New York Times: Natsuno Asanuma, a...
Auto workers have ended their strike after Honda agreed to a pay raise, the New York Times reports : The Japanese automaker said the workers, who had returned to the job a few days ago pending a final deal, had accepted...
As conflicting reports come out about the status of the strike at the Honda parts factory in China, many voices in the Western media are asking whether this strike and other recent events mark the beginning of an organized labor...
The New York Times continues its coverage of the ongoing strike at the Honda transmission factory in China: A strike at an enormous Honda transmission factory here in southeastern China has suddenly and unexpectedly turned into...
On the Huffington Post, Jeffrey Wasserstrom looks the ongoing strike at the Honda factory in China from an historical perspective: International commentators will surely have the most to say about the protests of 1989 this week....
The New York Times looks at the economic implications of the strike at the Honda factory in China: Rapidly rising industrial wages are beginning to allow China’s workers to share in their country’s rising prosperity. The...
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