In another employee standoff at a multinational conglomerate in Karnataka, violence broke out at Taiwanese technology giant Wistron Corporation’s Narsapura plant in Kolar district of the state near Bengaluru, which manufactures Apple iPhones apart from other IoT products. The employees who alleged salary deductions and untimely payments damaged factory property including vehicles of officials parked at the premises. Thousands of employees were seen shattering window panes, furniture, and CCTV cameras at the campus. About 100 workers were detained on Saturday following the incident. “This issue has lingered for over four months now. Initially, there were three shifts which were converted to two shifts with 12 hours duty and four hours overtime. While the company is not paying salaries for overtime, it has reduced the promised salaries to employees,” alleged Krishna Siddi, All India Trade Union Congress member. For the past four months the employees were raising concerns abo
Workers go on rampage at Wistron s iPhone manufacturing facility near Bengaluru
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Workers around the world must defend striking Indian Toyota workers from repressive government measures
Workers in India and around the world must come to the defence of the Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) workers in the city of Bangaluru in southern India, who are defying a Karnataka state government back-to-work order and threats of mass arrests and firings. The TKM workers are opposing Toyota’s attempt to increase production by 25 percent and defying the government’s attempt to criminalize their struggle.
Over 3,000 workers at two TKM plants launched a sit-in strike November 9 over the dismissal of a union leader who had sought to convey workers’ grievances to management. The following day, the management locked the workers out of the sprawling 432-acre TKM complex. TKM, which is 89 percent owned by Japanese car giant Toyota and 11 percent by Indian conglomerate Kirloskar, is demanding a 25 percent production increase to keep the Bidadi facility globally competitive. This wou