File image of staff of a Samsung facility throughout a strike to demand larger wages at its Sriperumbudur plant close to Chennai on September 11, 2024.
| Picture Credit score: Reuters
Indian police have detained round 100 putting staff and union leaders protesting low wages at a Samsung Electronics plant in Chennai, as they have been planning a march on Monday (September 16, 2024) with out permission, police officers mentioned.
The detention marks an escalation of a strike by staff at a Samsung house equipment plant close to Chennai. Employees 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, instructed Reuters by phone that round 100 staff have been beneath “preventive arrest”, with out elaborating.
One other police officer on situation of anonymity mentioned the detentions have been made attributable to a scarcity of permission to carry a protest march.
Samsung didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Employees have since final week been protesting at a makeshift tent close to the plant, demanding larger wages, recognition for a union backed by labour group Centre of Indian Commerce Unions (CITU) and higher working hours.
Samsung isn’t eager to recognise any union backed by an out of doors labour group.
A. Jenitan, a union chief of CITU, instructed Reuters that police additionally detained one in all their senior leaders, E. Muthukumar, who was main the Samsung protests.
“The employees have been requested to return to the (strike) tent,” he mentioned.
Printed – September 16, 2024 12:13 pm IST
