About 1,000 employees went on strike for several hours this week Bloomberg About 1,000 workers at a Foxconn plant in southwest China assembling printers and computers for companies including Hewlett-Packard Co. went on strike for several hours this week demanding higher pay. The Taiwan-based company, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., said the workers walked off the job for four hours Wednesday at its production site in Chongqing. About 20 workers went on strike Thursday morning but further details on that stoppage weren’t available. Management “continuously increased production volumes, and even required individual workers to take on tasks that used to require two workers to handle. The increase in workload wasn’t compensated,” said one worker who declined to be named. He said he participated in the strike. “Some workers are not happy because the company (Foxconn) has reduced overtime hours, a key component of their salaries,” after H-P HPQ, -4.45% cut orders, said a Foxconn official who declined to be named. Workers also demanded the resignation of the factory manager, he said. Also, the company had tried to lay off some workers without paying severance, the official added. Foxconn employs about 30,000 workers at its Chongqing site. The company has more than one million workers in China and is a major supplier to Apple Inc.AAPL, +0.22% Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -1.99% and Sony Corp. SNE, -3.43% The strike came after H-P said earlier this month it planned to separate its personal-computer and printer businesses from its corporate hardware and services operations as it faces intensifying competition from China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. An H-P representative in Asia didn’t have an immediate comment. via