Updated Tuesday, April 15, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AFP

Vietnamese demand higher pay from Taiwanese factory

HANOI -- About 3,000 workers at a Taiwanese shoe factory have gone on strike, demanding higher salaries to help cope with inflation, officials said Monday. “In the factory we have almost 3,000 workers. All of them are on strike,” Joyce Yang, office manager of the Emperor footwear company in southern Long An province, told AFP.

“They want a salary increase of about 10 percent.” The strike began Friday night and was still going Monday, added Yang, who hopes the situation will be back to normal by Tuesday night after talks.

A strike of more than 15,000 workers hit a factory that makes shoes for Nike in Long An earlier this month. Workers also asked for a salary increase.

Strikes are becoming more and more frequent in communist Vietnam, where consumer prices rose more than 16 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2008, including for essentials such as rice.

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