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DESCRIPTION:Striking Chinese Honda Transmission workers are fighting for wage parity at 
 their plant. This rank and file strike is an important step for the Chinese 
 workers in fighting back against the multi-nationals in China\n\n\n6/1/2010 
 SF Rally-Speakout In Support Of Striking China Honda Transmission 
 Workers\n\nSan Francisco Honda\n10 South Van Ness at Market above the Van 
 Ness MUNI station.southwestern entrance.\nSan Francisco\n\n\nThe critical 
 dynamics of the Foshan Honda Transmission Workers Strike\n\nThe Foshan 
 Honda Transmission Workers strike which has continued since May 21 has shut 
 down all Honda production in China. The particular issue of Honda as a 
 Japanese global corporation has made the suppression of the strike more 
 difficult for the authorities as the remaining sensitivities to Japanese 
 occupation and activities during WWII require very special handling on the 
 part of officials and the Honda corporation.\n\nThe independence of the 
 strikers from the official ACFTU (All China Federation of Trade Unions) 
 also lends a dynamic to the work stoppage, where the official union has 
 served only as a go between the strikers and the corporation. The strikers 
 operate with their own organization. They have turned down already 
 substandard offers of wage improvements.\n\nThe setting in southern China, 
 just twenty miles west of Canton (Guangdong/Guangzhou) in Foshan, an old 
 and established industrial city where unrelenting inflation makes life 
 impossible for wage earners, illustrates the crisis in the coastal zone. 
 Nearby is the ceramic center of Shiwan which has had a long industrial 
 heritage together with Foshan.\n\nThe defense of the Foshan Strikers rises 
 to a high priority for all supporters of trade union and workers rights. 
 Given the central role in the auto industry and the transmission workers 
 strategic ability to shut down all Honda production in China, this strike 
 has already made history and brought global notice to the substandard 
 minimum wage fight, raging across China.\n\nWorldwide demonstration of 
 support to force the authorities and Honda to recognize the rights of the 
 strikers must take place at Honda facilities globally. From Greece to 
 China, defending working people's rights here in California can most 
 strongly progress by standing with the Foshan Honda Transmission Strikers 
 who have stood in action for themselves and workers globally. The urgent 
 need to defend the strike which is also our action against the untenable 
 corporate global system that threatens the future of all humanity.\n\nJoin 
 San Franciscans  Tuesday June 1, 2010 at 4PM at San Francisco Honda 10 
 South Van Ness at Market above the Van Ness MUNI station.southwestern 
 entrance.\nInitiated by Peace and Freedom Party Labor Committee\nTo Speak 
 and Endorse Contact (415)694-3605\nwww.peaceandfreedom.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/31/18649279.php
SUMMARY:SF Rally-Speakout In Support Of Striking China Honda Transmission Workers
LOCATION:San Francisco Honda 10 South Van Ness at Market above the Van Ness MUNI 
 station. southwestern entrance.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/31/18649279.php
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