In recent months, Vietnamese working for foreign export companies have resorted to wildcat strikes to improve working conditions. Before the strikes, the minimum wage of about $40 a month had remained unchanged for six years, while Vietnam's currency lost almost 15 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar. Since the wildcat strikes, the ruling Communist Party has increased the minimum wage in foreign-owned factories by nearly 40 percent, but worker complaints continue.
See "Vietnam's labor strife worsens
Series of strikes, protests over pay, working conditions", Aaron Glantz and Ngoc Nguyen, San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 2006