With Honda Motors announcing its decision to hire hundreds to replacement workers on Sunday, the workers on strike at a Honda auto parts factory in southeastern China – the Honda Lock Co. in Zhongshan, Guangdong province - agreed to return to work on Monday morning.

According to the information forwarded by the workers, there were severe shortages of staff at the factory - before the strike commenced on Wednesday – due to the reason that there had been no increase in wages.

Though the factory has now raised wages and benefits; the increase still falls far short of what the strikers had demanded. While the workers were demanding a two-fold increase in wages alone, the factory management has decided to give the replacement workers and returning employees an 11 percent wage-hike, and a 33 percent increase in food and housing allowance.

The improved compensation implies that the wages of the workers have increased to $152 per month, along with a $59 allowance – an offer that has made the jobs at the factory attractive enough for the replacement workers.

In a statement pertaining to the resolution of the strike, Akemi Ando, a spokeswoman for the second-ranking Japanese carmaker, said in Tokyo that the majority of striking workers at the Honda Lock Co. have agreed to the offer put forth by the plant’s management.