Strike by more than 1,000 Samsung workers enters a third week in India
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New Delhi:A strike by more than 1,000 workers at a Samsung India Electronics plant has entered its third week, and management is at an impasse over th...
New Delhi: A strike by more than 1,000 workers at a Samsung India Electronics plant has entered its third week, and management is at an impasse over their demands for recognition of the employees’ union and higher pay, a workers union spokesman said on Wednesday,
The employees strike in the plant near Chennai, the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, started on Sept. 9 with a key demand for a 25-30% pay hike in the average monthly salary of 30,000-35,000 rupees ($425), said K.C. Gopi Kumar, the spokesman for the Samsung India Electronics workers union.
"Our foremost demand is recognition of the union and its rights by the management,” Kumar said.
A Samsung official said that management was prepared to discuss the workers’ demands.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to reporters, said the company wanted to negotiate directly with the employees’ representatives rather than through the Center of Indian Trade Unions, or CITU.
