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100 workers of Samsung Chennai plant detained for protest

Workers are demanding higher wages, recognition for a union backed by labour group Centre of Indian Trade Unions and better working hours
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Police have detained around 100 striking workers and union leaders protesting for low wages at a Samsung Electronics plant in Chennai, as they were planning a march on Monday without permission, police officials said.

The detention marks an escalation of a strike by workers at a Samsung home appliance plant near Chennai in Tamil Nadu. Workers want higher wages and have boycotted work for seven days, disrupting production that contributes roughly a third of Samsung’s annual India revenue of $12 billion.

A senior police official of Kancheepuram district, Sankar Ganesh, told Reuters by telephone that around 100 workers were under “preventive arrest”, without elaborating.

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Another police officer on condition of anonymity said the detentions were made due to a lack of permission to hold a protest march.

Samsung did not respond to a request for comment.

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Workers have since last week been protesting at a makeshift tent near the plant, demanding higher wages, recognition for a union backed by labour group Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and better working hours.

Samsung is not keen to recognise any union backed by an outside labour group.

A Jenitan, a union leader of CITU, told Reuters that police also detained one of their senior leaders, E Muthukumar, who was leading the Samsung protests.

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