Indian police on Tuesday stated it had detained round 600 Samsung Electronics employees and union members for staging a avenue protest as a strike on the South Korean firm’s house home equipment plant in Tamil Nadu state entered its fourth week.
More than 1,000 employees have disrupted operations and protested in a makeshift tent near the manufacturing facility close to the town of Chennai since Sept. 9. They have demanded increased wages and union recognition on the plant, which accounts for roughly a 3rd of Samsung’s annual Indian income of $12 billion.
Charles Sam Rajadurai, a senior state police official, stated that Samsung workers and employees linked to labor group CITU, which is main the protest, had been detained as their protest march close to Chennai inconvenienced the general public.
“They are being detained in four wedding halls,” he stated.
On Sept. 16, police detained 104 hanging Samsung employees for nearly a day.
The protests solid a shadow over Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s drive for overseas traders to “Make in India” and was India’s largest such strike lately. Samsung has stated the hanging employees danger shedding their jobs.
Samsung didn’t reply to a request for remark. It beforehand stated the common month-to-month wage of full-time manufacturing employees on the plant is almost double that of comparable employees within the area and that it was open to partaking with employees and resolving the matter.
On common, Samsung employees earn 25,000 rupees ($300) every month and demand a elevate of 36,000 rupees a month reached inside three years, CITU stated.
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