Published September 17,2024
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The staff at a Samsung plant in southern India continued their protest for the ninth day on Tuesday regardless of detentions by police.
The staff are demanding higher wages and improved working circumstances.
Around 90% of the 1,723 staff on the Samsung India Sriperumbudur plant in Tamil Nadu state are on strike, based on the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), which is supporting the protest.
CITU stated greater than 100 hanging staff have been detained Monday, however they have been launched later.
“The Samsung Sriperumbudur plant producing home appliances alone accounts for around a third of its annual $12 billion revenue extracted from Indian soil. The workers in this plant are subjected to long working hours, the torturous intensity of work pressure to finish each product like refrigerator, washing machine or TV within 10-15 seconds, non-stop work for 4-5 hours at a stretch and unsafe working conditions,” based on the union.
The CITU’s Tamil Nadu Deputy General Secretary S. Kannan on Tuesday demanded that the “police withdraw the cases immediately.”
Samsung final week stated that it had initiated discussions with staff on the Chennai plant “to resolve all issues at the earliest.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr