Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Vietnam deputy prime minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has ordered better labour policies because strikes continue to occur, with 2011 recording twice the number compared to the previous year.

Hanoi - Nearly 2,000 workers at a South Korean-owned garment factory in Vietnam were holding the second day of a wildcat strike over low wages, an official said Thursday.

The number of strikes in Vietnam is soaring, official media said Wednesday, as workers in the communist nation struggle to cope with one of the world's highest rates of inflation.

Hanoi - About 1,300 employees at a Taiwan-owned footwear factory in northern Vietnam returned to work Wednesday after the company agreed to increase their monthly salary.

Some 1,700 workers at a Thai-owned food cannery in southern Vietnam returned to work on Tuesday after the company agreed to increase monthly bonus payments.

Hanoi - More than 2,000 workers were on strike at a South Korean-owned footwear factory in Vietnam, a police official and the company said Friday.

Hanoi - Workers at a Japanese-owned computer chip factory in Hanoi have staged a wildcat strike demanding higher salaries, an official said Friday.

Four hundred striking workers at a South Korean-owned garment factory returned to their jobs Friday in Vietnam after the company accepted most of their demands, but another 400 continued to hold out for back pay.

Hanoi - More than 1,500 workers at a South Korean-owned garment factory in the Vietnamese port city of Haiphong have been on strike for three days, a factory official said Wednesday.

Hanoi - More than 1,000 workers at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory in central Vietnam have gone on strike, trade union officials said Thursday.

Vietnam was hit by a record 762 labour strikes last year, many of them in textile and footwear plants, as workers struggled with costs amid spiralling inflation, a labour union official said Thursday.

Hanoi - The number of wildcat strikes in Vietnam has increased sharply compared with last year, a government official said Tuesday. "This year, we have seen about a 30-per-cent increase in wildcat strikes compared with last year," said Pham Minh Huan, Director of the Salary Policy Department of the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs.

The wildcat strike of more than 200 workers from a company in the central Quang Ngai Province escalated Thursday.

HANOI - Some 2,000 workers at two foreign-owned companies have gone on strike, demanding better pay and allowances, company and union officials said Friday. More than 1,400 workers at Valley View Vietnam, a Taiwanese-owned garment company based in the central city of Danang, have been on strike since Thursday, demanding a monthly petrol allowance of 100,000 dong (6 dollars) and an increase in their daily meal allowance.

Thousands of workers have gone on strike in Vietnam, demanding higher wages to match the rising cost of living after inflation surged 27 percent year-on-year in July, media reported Saturday.