Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee visits and excursions the Samsung Electronics Noida plant in India on July 29. (Samsung Electronics)
Indian police have detained round 100 hanging staff and union leaders protesting low wages at a Samsung Electronics plant in southern India, as they have been planning a march on Monday with out permission, police officers mentioned.
The detention marks an escalation of a strike by staff at a Samsung dwelling equipment plant close to Chennai metropolis within the state of Tamil Nadu. Staff need larger wages and have boycotted work for seven days, disrupting manufacturing that contributes roughly a 3rd of Samsung’s annual India income of $12 billion.
A senior police official of Kancheepuram district, Sankar Ganesh, informed Reuters by phone that round 100 staff have been underneath “preventive arrest,” with out elaborating.
One other police officer on situation of anonymity mentioned the detentions have been made as a consequence of a scarcity of permission to carry a protest march.
Samsung didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Staff have since final week been protesting at a makeshift tent close to the plant, demanding larger wages, recognition for a union backed by labor group Centre of Indian Commerce Unions and higher working hours.
Samsung isn’t eager to acknowledge any union backed by an outdoor labor group.
A. Jenitan, a union chief of CITU, informed Reuters that police additionally detained certainly one of their senior leaders, E. Muthukumar, who was main the Samsung protests.
“The employees have been requested to return to the (strike) tent,” he mentioned. (Reuters)
