Nike factory in Vietnam strike in the end agreed to pay 10%
Every year, there are 75 million pairs of Nike sports shoes, as the hands of the Vietnamese footwear workers sold to the world, but demands for pay increases of workers in progress, but running the country's inflation, however sweeping.
By Wednesday evening, Vietnam has finally made official as saying that the strike has ended without serious casualties, a consensus has been reached between employers and employees pay 10 percent, but taking into account such factors as security, the plant in the next three days will continue to close down.
One week, the Vietnamese footwear-ching-lu limited liability company (Ching Luh Vietnam) 1.7 million workers of shoe-making demonstrations, demanding more pay 20% and improve the food. These workers get a monthly wage of 59 U.S. dollars (including a lunch) - but the factory management over grievances: In fact, we pay higher than the national minimum wage by 14%.
The strike continued until Tuesday, Shade sailthe boss is not behind closed doors, not the official argument. Angry workers began to shut the door threw stones at the factory, almost, and to maintain law and order police. A few bold answer to the media workers of the shoe that will pay the owner, the factory will resume production, but who go back to work, who would have lost their jobs, the final say is the boss. Anonymity of these workers, compared to the desire to return to work, they are more afraid of being dismissed (or even by personal revenge).
Lu Qing, general manager of the George Lin refused to appear, but in a written statement released Wednesday, said the local government is willing to accept the recommendation of the trade union organizations, in order to stop the issue of lay-off to find one of the most effective way.
The Vietnamese Government in 2006, the national foreign-owned factories have minimum wage workers to increase by 25% in 2007 and on this basis increased 12% in Hanoi in January this year, also took the lead in the region to pay 13%. However, the official publication of Vietnam's inflation rate has reached 9.5%, up by 10%; consumer price index rose 19 percent last year, so it is not difficult to understand why more and more widespread strike in Vietnam.
November 29 last year, Ho Chi Minh City's neighboring town of DongNai Nike shoe factories, 14,000 shoe workers asking them to pay the owner of South Korea, when the plant average monthly wage of 62 dollars, higher than the national minimum wage standard of 20% . At that time, Nike spokesman admitted that a number of nike shoes in Vietnam there have been large and small plant of the strike. |
