Japan's Honda Motor faced its third strike in a month in China Wednesday after workers walked out of an affiliated auto parts plant, with production at two assembly plants paralysed, officials said.
Local workers staged a walkout Wednesday at Honda subsidiary Honda Lock (Guangdong Guli) Co. Ltd., said a spokesman, adding that the latest strike had not impacted production in China.
"We are still not in a position to tell how many workers were on strike and why they were doing so," said the Tokyo-based spokesman, who declined to be named. "But at least that strike has not affected our main assembly lines in China."
The auto parts plant in the southern province of Guangdong produces key sets, door locks and other parts with around 1,500 employees, said an official of Honda Lock, fully owned by Honda Motor.
"Production at the company stopped from this morning," Gao Xia, a Beijing-based press officer with Honda Motor (China) Investment Co., Ltd., said, adding that motives for the strike were not available.
Earlier Honda said two of its assembly plants in China would remain closed indefinitely due to a strike at an exhaust parts maker operated by a subsidiary.
Two assembly plants run by Guangqi Honda have been closed since Monday, following the strike at the joint venture factory of a Honda subsidiary and a Taiwanese firm.
Labour leaders and managers at the Foshan Fengfu Autoparts Company, in Guangdong, were still in negotiations, said an official at Yutaka Giken, the Honda subsidiary that operates the joint venture.
"The talks are still continuing," he said.
Fengfu employs 489 workers in Foshan and supplies Honda vehicles with mufflers and other exhaust parts.
The labour dispute comes after Honda, which produces 650,000 vehicles per year in China, last week resolved a strike at its parts unit in Foshan by offering workers a 24 percent pay rise.
Honda shares plunged 2.81 percent in Tokyo trade Wednesday.
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