Shanghai: Workers at a Japanese-owned electronics factory in north China returned to work Saturday after a four-day strike.
Production at the Tianjin Mitsumi Electric factory resumed after an agreement between the workers and the employer. The factory is owned by Tokyo-listed Mitsumi Electric, a maker of electronics components.
Demand
Mitsumi Electric had previously said the plant, in the Dongli District of Tianjin with over 3,300 employees, had stopped production because "some of its employees demanded higher wages and improved benefits". A Xinhua report said the workers' lawful demands were satisfied, but it did not provide details.
Over the past weeks, striking workers have demanded higher wages from car parts makers and other manufacturers, especially Japanese auto parts companies with operations in the south.
Workers, many of them migrants from poor villages, say their wages have not kept up with rising prices or the profits reaped by companies using China as a low-cost production base.
