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Toyota to resume work at key China assembly plant Mon.+
TIANJIN, China, June 20 Kyodo - Toyota Motor Corp. is set to resume operation at a key assembly plant in Tianjin southeast of Beijing on Monday after a Tianjin-based parts supplier affiliate settled a labor dispute Saturday.
The settlement will allow Tianjin Toyoda Gosei Co., a subsidiary of Toyoda
Gosei Co., based in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, to supply parts to Tianjin
FAW Toyota Motor Co. from Monday, a Toyoda Gosei spokesman said.
Workers agreed to accept a proposal from Tianjin Toyoda Gosei management for a
20 percent wage increase from year-earlier levels, but they failed to win an
additional pay rise they had sought, the spokesman told Kyodo News by
telephone.
Instead, management agreed to provide workers with increased allowances for
summer heat and for perfect attendance, the spokesman said.
With the agreement, about 1,800 employees at Tianjin Toyoda Gosei ended a
strike they staged Thursday and Friday before returning to work Sunday.
The strike forced Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor, which operates one of Toyota's main
assembly plants in China, to halt work Friday.
More than half the cars Toyota manufactures in China come from Tianjin FAW
Toyota Motor, which produces models such as the Corolla and Crown passenger
cars.
It was feared any prolonged disruption at operations in Tianjin would affect
Toyota's business throughout China, now the world's biggest auto market.
The Tianjin labor action was the latest against Japanese and other foreign
manufacturers in China by workers seeking to benefit from the massive gains
China's surging domestic and export markets are bringing to the corporations.
In early June, Honda Motor Co. agreed to a wage increase for workers at a parts
plant where a strike forced the shutdown of its four assembly plants in China.
Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming dismissed speculation the labor disputes
involving Toyota and Honda could prompt large-scale transfers by foreign
investors in factories to Vietnam, Thailand or other Asian economies given
rising labor costs in China.
Speaking to Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV on Friday about a string of recent
strikes in China, Chen said the two cases ''will not have a sweeping effect
once appropriately resolved,'' the China Daily reported in its weekend edition.
''Given the circumstances of the lingering global economic crisis and various
other difficulties faced by enterprises, we will ensure the workers get a
moderate increase in their pay and simultaneously guarantee that the employers
will not be overburdened by the rising personnel costs,'' the paper quoted Chen
as saying.
Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor, which has three assembly lines, has an annual
production capacity of 420,000 vehicles and manufactured about 380,000 units in
2009.
The company is a joint venture between Toyota and China FAW Group Corp.
In fiscal 2009 through March 31 this year, Toyota sales in China rose 34.6
percent from a year earlier to 759,000 vehicles, although its worldwide sales
fell 1.4 percent to 7,291,000, a second year of decline.
==Kyodo
2010-06-20 00:31:52
The settlement will allow Tianjin Toyoda Gosei Co., a subsidiary of Toyoda
Gosei Co., based in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, to supply parts to Tianjin
FAW Toyota Motor Co. from Monday, a Toyoda Gosei spokesman said.
Workers agreed to accept a proposal from Tianjin Toyoda Gosei management for a
20 percent wage increase from year-earlier levels, but they failed to win an
additional pay rise they had sought, the spokesman told Kyodo News by
telephone.
Instead, management agreed to provide workers with increased allowances for
summer heat and for perfect attendance, the spokesman said.
With the agreement, about 1,800 employees at Tianjin Toyoda Gosei ended a
strike they staged Thursday and Friday before returning to work Sunday.
The strike forced Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor, which operates one of Toyota's main
assembly plants in China, to halt work Friday.
More than half the cars Toyota manufactures in China come from Tianjin FAW
Toyota Motor, which produces models such as the Corolla and Crown passenger
cars.
It was feared any prolonged disruption at operations in Tianjin would affect
Toyota's business throughout China, now the world's biggest auto market.
The Tianjin labor action was the latest against Japanese and other foreign
manufacturers in China by workers seeking to benefit from the massive gains
China's surging domestic and export markets are bringing to the corporations.
In early June, Honda Motor Co. agreed to a wage increase for workers at a parts
plant where a strike forced the shutdown of its four assembly plants in China.
Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming dismissed speculation the labor disputes
involving Toyota and Honda could prompt large-scale transfers by foreign
investors in factories to Vietnam, Thailand or other Asian economies given
rising labor costs in China.
Speaking to Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV on Friday about a string of recent
strikes in China, Chen said the two cases ''will not have a sweeping effect
once appropriately resolved,'' the China Daily reported in its weekend edition.
''Given the circumstances of the lingering global economic crisis and various
other difficulties faced by enterprises, we will ensure the workers get a
moderate increase in their pay and simultaneously guarantee that the employers
will not be overburdened by the rising personnel costs,'' the paper quoted Chen
as saying.
Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor, which has three assembly lines, has an annual
production capacity of 420,000 vehicles and manufactured about 380,000 units in
2009.
The company is a joint venture between Toyota and China FAW Group Corp.
In fiscal 2009 through March 31 this year, Toyota sales in China rose 34.6
percent from a year earlier to 759,000 vehicles, although its worldwide sales
fell 1.4 percent to 7,291,000, a second year of decline.
==Kyodo
2010-06-20 00:31:52
