BEIJING, June 23 (UPI) -- A strike at an auto supply company in China has brought one of Toyota Motor Corp.'s vehicle production plants in the country to a halt, Toyota said.
Hitoshi Yokoyama, a company spokesman based in Beijing, said the strike in China at Denso, a supplier of fuel injectors, has forced two assembly lines at Toyota's Guangzhou factory to shut down temporarily, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Toyota owns 25 percent of Denso Corp., a Japanese firm that owns the the Denso factory in China outright.
The strike is the second to halt production at a Toyota assembly plant in China in a week. On Friday, production was halted at a Toyota plant in Tianjin, but production resumed Monday, as that walkout was resolved, the Journal said.
A Denso executive said workers were demanding higher wages. Although worker unions are illegal in China, numerous worker walkouts over wages have sprung up in recent months across the country.
Honda spokesman Takayuki Fujii said there was a chance the Denso strike could also force Honda to slow or halt production in China, although its plants were still operating at a normal pace Tuesday.
