A strike at a Honda parts factory in southern China has ended after more than a week of disruptions, the Japanese automaker said on Thursday, adding that vehicle production remained unaffected.
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Honda last week said sales had fallen 2.7% year on year in June after its China operations were crippled in recent weeks by work stoppages.
The stoppage at a unit of Atsumitec, which supplies gear shift levers for Hondas made in China, began on 12 July.
“We have heard (from Atsumitec) that the strike is over,” a Honda spokesman in Japan told AFP.
“What we can say is that all assembly plants are operating as usual,” he added.
Atsumitec is 48% owned by Honda.
Workers were seeking a pay rise of 500 yuan (73.70 dollars) a month, Xinhua news agency reported previously, but it was not clear if their demands had been met or when the workers had resumed their duties.
A separate strike at an electronic components factory owned by Japanese firm Omron Corp also had not disrupted Honda’s production, the spokesman said.
That work stoppage lasted only one day this week, and operations fully resumed on Thursday, Omron spokesman Arihiro Yokota told AFP.
He said the strike ended “as the company agreed part of the workers’ demands for a pay rise,” but refused to disclose details of the agreement.
