Vietnam Labor Unrest Over Pension Change Spreads to Second Plant

A strike over the Vietnamese government’s pension rule change has spread to a second factory as the protest enters a sixth day.

Employees at a unit of Taiwanese footwear manufacturer Pou Chen Corp. in Tien Giang province were on strike, joining the several thousand workers outside the same company’s Ho Chi Minh City factory, some blocking a highway that leads into the complex. As many as 90,000 of the Ho Chi Minh City workers went on strike last week, VnExpress reported.