【英语中国】丰田在华工厂再度停产 因供应商工人罢工

Toyota Motor Corp. suspended production at a car plant in southern China Tuesday due to a strike at a supplier, just a day after the Japanese company restarted a separate Chinese plant that had been idled by labor action.

A strike at the supplier plant, Denso (Guangzhou Nansha) Co., caused a shortage of fuel injectors and other components, which forced Toyota's plant near Guangzhou to shut its two assembly lines, said Hitoshi Yokoyama, a Beijing-based Toyota spokesman.

The strike at the Denso factory, wholly owned by Japan's Denso Corp., which is in turn 25%-owned by Toyota, is part of a wave of labor unrest that has hit China in recent months.

On Friday, a strike at a parts supplier in the industrial port city of Tianjin forced Toyota to suspend operations at its car-production plant there, although that strike was resolved and Toyota resumed production Monday in Tianjin.

A Denso executive in Beijing said the factory raised wages in April, but striking workers are demanding a bigger increase.

In southern China, Denso (Guangzhou Nansha) also supplies parts to Honda Motor Co. and other auto makers. Honda spokesman Takayuki Fujii said Honda plants in China operated normally Tuesday despite the strike. He said there is a possibility that the strike 'if it drags on a few days' could affect production at Honda's four plants in China.

Yoko Suga, a Denso spokeswoman in Japan, said production at its plant near Guangzhou has been idle since Monday morning, when workers walked off the job.

It wasn't immediately clear how extensive the walkout was. Ms. Suga said the company didn't know when the factory with 1,100 workers might be able to resume work.

Toyota has assembly operations in four Chinese cities. Its Guangzhou plant can produce about 350,000 vehicles a year and makes the company's Camry sedans, among other models. It is smaller than Toyota's Tianjin plant, which has capacity to assemble more than 400,000 vehicles annually.

丰田汽车公司(Toyota Motor Corp.)在中国南方的一家汽车厂周二因一家供应商的工人罢工而停产，此前一天，这家日本公司的另一个因罢工而停产的中国工厂刚刚复工。

丰田汽车驻北京发言人横山仁(Hitoshi Yokoyama)称，供应商电装（广州南沙）有限公司(Denso (Guangzhou Nansha) Co.)工人举行罢工，导致喷油嘴和其他部件短缺，迫使该公司关闭了广州工厂的两条装配线。

Reuters周二，工人们罢工期间聚集在电装（广州南沙）有限公司电装（广州南沙）有限公司是日本电装公司(Denso Corp.)的全资子公司，丰田公司拥有日本电装公司25%的股份。近几个月来中国发生了一系列劳资纠纷事件，此次罢工也是其中的一部分。

上周五，天津一家零部件制造公司发生的罢工事件迫使当地的丰田汽车生产厂停产，尽管那次罢工事件得以解决，丰田在天津的公司也于周一复工。

电装公司驻北京的一位高管说，该厂已于4月份涨了工资，但现在罢工的工人要求提高工资涨幅。

电装（广州南沙）有限公司还向本田汽车(Honda Motor Co.)和其他汽车生产商供应配件。本田汽车发言人藤井隆行(Takayuki Fujii)说，在华工厂周二运作正常。但他表示，如果罢工再进行几天，本田在华四家工厂的生产可能也会受到影响。

日本电装发言人Yoko Suga 说，电装（广州南沙）有限公司的工人周一上午停止工作，工厂已停产。

尚不清楚罢工的规模如何。Yoko Suga说，公司不清楚这家有1,100名工人的工厂何时能复工。

丰田在中国四座城市有汽车装配业务。其广州工厂的年产量约为35万辆汽车，生产凯美瑞(Camry)等型号的轿车。该厂的生产规模小于丰田的天津制造厂，天津厂汽车装配年产量超过40万辆。