More than 5,000 workers in Hai Phong City, 60 miles south east of Hanoi began a strike yesterday.
Yazaki Haiphong Vietnam Co, a Japanese car-part manufacturer, is based in Nomura Industrial Park, where 2,000 workers from different companies were on strike earlier this month for similar grievances. Wages were increased in January, but pensions and bonuses were cut. Workers also complained of lack of respect, bad food and unreasonably maternity leave requirements as contributing factors to the strike, according to the Thanh Nien news.
The State run trade union, which has only a negotiating role in Vietnam and does not call strikes, is in negotiations with representatives from the company to end the strike. According to the union, there were 541 strikes in Vietnam last year, involving 350,000 workers.
