Strikes continue to plague the Honda plants in China. This is already the second time in less than one month that strikes caused the plants to stop production. Tomorrow, two China factories will have to stop their car assembly production. These plants, which are located in Guangzhou in the province of Guangdong, will close because their employees are asking for higher pay.

This is according to Natsuno Asanuma, spokeswoman for Honda Tokyo. Also, according to another spokeswoman based in Beijing named Gao Xia, a strike permitted another supplier to halt their production, and this is still in Guangdong. Specifically, the company’s name is Foshan Fengfu Autoparts Corporation, located in Foshan, Guangdong. They started their strike in June 7, and this happened seven days after a parts maker, which also supplies Honda car parts, was given 24 percent increase in salary.

There really is a lot of pressure from the southern part of China to increase wages, and this was all started by the initial strike from the Honda plant. It is highly likely that other workers from other automaker plants will ask for higher salary as well. Despite the continuing strike, Honda stated that they still have partial operation, but this statement was not elaborated further.