YIKES!- did you know that workers are striking in CHINA?

[underpants]

Honda China strike could spur broader worker demands

China/TOKYO (Reuters) - A strike at a Honda Motor parts supplier in southern China could augur broader demands across China's vast manufacturing belt as workers seek a bigger piece of the nation's growing economic wealth.

About 100 workers wearing white overalls and blue caps milled about the factory grounds of the Honda Lock plant, a supplier of locks to Honda's car-making operations in China, on Monday after many of the 1,500 workers walked off the job on Wednesday.

The strike is the latest in a series to hit factories around southern China's Pearl River Delta and a few other regions by workers demanding a greater piece of China's growing economic p

Police tracked reporters outside the factory and videotaped proceedings as factory workers streamed out of the factory at the end of the day. Many seemed nervous and wouldn't talk, glancing in the direction of police walking alongside and on motorbikes.

"I can't talk to you any more, we are under great pressure," said one. "We will likely go back to work and see what happens."

[WeDidIt]

1. India and Indonesia got pissed off when their jobs were offshored to China

China is going to be pissed off when their jobs are offshored to African nations. This is the first step towards that.

Then finally, African workers will get pissed off when their jobs are offshored to Europe and the United States.

[Warpy]

3. My Korean TV said "made in China" on the box

China took everybody's jobs and fucked their workers over. Now the workers are fighting back and the Yuan has been unpegged.

We're going to live in interesting times, for sure.

[HuckleB]

7. Yes.

Even most Taiwanese companies now build their products in China.

[girl gone mad]

9. China's jobs can't be so easily outsourced..

least of all to Africa.

China has many competitive advantages beyond cost, and most Africans are unwilling to toil away day and night under extremely poor factory conditions.

[Warpy]

2. YES, and they're WINNING!

The government doesn't quite know what to do when the workers bypass the stooges that run the state unions and decide to strike for better wages and working conditions.

China isn't going to be a slave labor paradise much longer. Soulless corporate executives had better come up with a new plan, like some of the healthier African countries. There are still poor and desperate people in the world, boys, it's just the low hanging ones are disappearing.

[underpants]

5. As they get money they also get education

not that they didn't have it before

Amazing to see the complete lack of planning from the planners, isn't it?

[Warpy]

8. These weren't planners, they were capitalist grabbers

and such people are always notoriously short on planning. Look at BP's planning for what to do about a deep water well blowout, for instance.

This wasn't planned, it just happened. Now the workers are giving them notice it's time to think a little more carefully about what they're doing.

[girl gone mad]

10. Short term thinking has dominated corporate boardrooms..

for the last couple of decades. The outsourcing of our manufacturing industries to China is a prime example of that phenomenon. China is notorious for stealing product formulas and technology, completely disregarding intellectual property rights, using inferior materials and toxic ingredients, and tearing up contracts after a company has already made too large an investment to walk away. Yet our business betters keep going back, all to save a little bit on labor (and maybe on the half-baked notion that China will let them compete in their marketplace some day - fat chance).

[treestar]

4. That's a good sign

The more rights they demand, the more they are on par with us and therefore not so much cheaper.

[TheFarseer]

6. eventually

we'll all be getting screwed equally by multi-national corporations and the jobs will be distributed more or less evenly.

[kysrsoze]

11. Good for them. Power to the people!