INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Samsung.(Photo: Shutterstock)3 min read Last Updated : Sep 19 2024 | 5:36 PM IST
Samsung Electronics' Indian unit has sued members of a
labour union that has led a strike for 11 days at its only India home appliances plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, escalating
12, which Reuters is the first to report, asks a district court in the state for a temporary injunction to restrain the union and its
9 disrupted work and protested in a nearby makeshift tent, demanding higher wages and recognition of a union at the plant that contributes
Narendra Modi's plan to court foreign investors to "Make in India" and to triple electronics production to $500 billion in six
Last week, it told Reuters in a statement it had initiated discussions with workers at the plant "to resolve all issues at the
of the influential labour group, Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), which has mobilised the company's workers
Samsung is not keen to recognise any union backed by a national labour group, and talks with workers and state officials have not yielded a
briefly detained more than 100 protesting workers as they were planning a march on Monday without permission.
The strike adds to Samsung's
And India's antitrust body has found Samsung and other smartphone companies colluded with e-commerce giants to launch devices exclusively,
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