Shanghai, June 17 (Gasgoo.com) Toyota Motor said today that a strike at its supplier joint venture in northern Chinese city of Tianjin is over, and the company's car assembly operations in China were not affected by the brief dispute, media reported, citing company spokespersons.
Toyota previously told its suppliers that it may be forced to stop an assembly line in Tianjin as early as today because of a walk-out at a parts factory in the city, the Asahi newspaper reported today.
The strike at Toyota affiliate Toyoda Gosei Co.'s plant in Tianjin began Tuesday and ended Wednesday after the company agreed to review the pay for its 800 workers, said Toyoda Gosei spokesman Tomotaka Ito.
Production resumed yesterday afternoon, despite a national holiday, to make up for lost time, according to Ito. "The strike is over. There is no impact on operations as of now," said Toyota spokeswoman Mieko Iwasaki.
The Tianjin factory run by Toyoda Gosei makes door parts, said Niu Yu, Toyota China's spokesman in Beijing, adding that the short-lived dispute at the plant didn't affect Toyota's car assembly operations in China.
Strikes by workers demanding higher wages at two China parts plants of Honda Motor forced the automaker to suspend its car assembly in the country intermittently in the past few weeks due to parts shortage.
