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TIANJIN, uk canada goose China, July 1 (Reuters) A strike at a Japanese owned electronics factory in north China crippled production on Thursday, extending the industrial unrest that has put manufacturers at odds with increasingly assertive Canada Goose Jackets workers.

Employees at the Tianjin Mitsumi Electric Co. factory continued a stoppage that began on Tuesday.

Handmade banners with workers demands hung from thecanadagooseoutlet the factory gate and about 30 workers gathered near an entrance cheap canada goose uk in rain, cheering reporters outside.

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Mitsumi Electric said the factory, with over 3,300 employees, had stopped production because “some of its employees demanded higher wages and improved benefits”.

Over past weeks, striking workers have demanded higher wages from car parts makers and other manufacturers, especially Japanese auto parts companies with operations in the south.

Workers, many of them migrants from poor villages, say their wages canada goose factory sale have not kept up with rising prices or the profits reaped by companies using China as a low cost production base.

strikes show that workers feel more confident that the labour market is moving in their favour, said Li Changping, a former Chinese local official who studies rural canada goose uk outlet issues.

of it is that they feel left out of the wealth, but another part of it is that they feel they have gained enough from rising wages that they can take a stand, demand a fairer share, said Li, who now works for a non government organisation canada goose with an office in Beijing.

Police guarded canada goose uk black friday the Mitsumi plant and stopped reporters from speaking to the workers inside, Canada Goose Outlet and empty coaches were parked outside the gate to block filming of the protest, underscoring the sensitivity of the unrest for the Communist Party run government, cheap Canada Goose wary of challenges to its grip on power.

There were no signs canada goose clearance of production at the darkened factory, but pelting rain appeared to deter workers from either coming outside canadian goose jacket or turning up at all. Locals Canada goose down buy canada goose jacket cheap said they saw hundreds of the Mitsumi workers milling around the plant on canada goose uk shop Wednesday.

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have to be really willing to work. My daughter left because she was too tired, they work more than ten hours there, said the mother of one former employee, who like many of the Canada Goose Online plants workers, lives nearby.

China domestic media have been largely mute about the strikes, apparently due to state censorship. But Xinhua has issued reports about the unrest on its English language service.

Labour costs in China have been rising, partly encouraged by a government that wants to uk canada goose outlet turn farmers and workers into more confident consumers, even as it tries to keep canada goose coats a lid Canada Goose online on strikes.

Earlier strikes disrupted production at auto makers Toyota and Honda, and have laid bare the rising demands of China 150 million migrant workers, especially younger ones wanting to secure a foothold urban prosperity. (Writing by Chris Buckley; Additional reporting by Chris Buckley in BEIJING, Sachi Izumi in TOKYO, editing by Miral Fahmy).