Over 30,000 automotive workers have put down their tools and gone on strike in South Africa according to Reuters.
Five of the seven automotive companies that operate in South Africa, which includes General Motors, Ford, Toyota, said that production has stopped or has been affected due to the stoppage.
The work stoppage will cost the auto industry $60 million a day according to the National Association Automobile Manufactures of South Africa.
"The strike affects the entire value chain of the industry," NAAMSA director Nico Vermeulen said, according to Reuters.
The strike was reportedly called last week by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, its largest manufacturing union, which wants a pay increase of 20 percent for its members according to Reuters.
The companies have so far only offered 6 percent.
Toyota said 80 percent of its 8,000 workers didn't show up to work today, Aug. 19.
BMW spokesman in South Africa, Guy Kilfoil, said that the strike could cost the company approximately 345 vehicles a day.
"We work 24 hours, seven days a week. There is no production and there is no plan to make it up," said Kilfoil.
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