• From Chairman Mike Bullock: There will be 14 members recalled Monday, June 14. The new seniority date to hold the plant is 2-2-2000 with last four social security number of 5000. That will leave 185 members still laid off.
•There will be a Women’s Committee meeting today after first shift at the Union Hall.
•From Automotive News: Honda Motor Co. said today it would resume building cars in China on Friday after a supplier of exhaust systems contained a labor dispute, but workers at another parts maker remained on strike. Workers at a lock supplier for Honda in southern China's Pearl River Delta plan to extend their strike into a third day on Friday. Among the demands were calls for an annual wage hike of not less than 15 percent, improved allowances and benefits, the right to organize independent labor unions and a pledge from management to not fire anyone joining the industrial action.
•From Wards Auto: Labor unrest that began among foreign firms in South China's affluent Pearl Delta area is showing signs of spreading to poorer interior areas, broadening a movement by workers demanding wages to catch up with the nation's growing wealth. Following recent high-profile disputes at Honda Motor and iPhone maker Foxconn International, strikes were reported at a Taiwanese-owned sports goods supplier in Jiangxi province, and at Japanese sewing machine maker Brother Industries in Xian -- both some distance from China's wealthier regions near Hong Kong and Shanghai. "All it takes now is a single spark and news will spread all over China, which could lead to similar industrial action in other factories," said Paul Tang, chief economist at Bank of East Asia in Hong Kong.
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