Workers in southern Vietnam have staged a series of strikes at foreign-owned factories over the past three months, the most serious and widespread industrial action in a decade. However, outside Vietnam little has been written about the strikes, which are continuing at some factories, even though the issues at hand are relevant to a trade dispute between the European Union and Asian countries over shoes.
See "The Workplace: Strikers in Vietnam get little help from Europe", Thomas Fuller, International Herald Tribune, February 27, 2006