New Delhi | Updated: December 18, 2020 8:33:18 am
The Wistron facility in Narasapura near Bengaluru. (Reuters)
The violence at Wistron Corp’s iPhone manufacturing facility in Kolar, Karnataka, is being viewed as having wider ramifications in India’s renewed manufacturing sector push, prompting a damage control exercise that is now being driven directly by the Centre. The state administration is learnt to have been instructed to salvage the situation and ensure a quick resolution.
Union government officials indicated there are three reasons why, from an administrative standpoint, the violence at the Wistron unit is being viewed as more than just a skirmish at a phone assembly unit. The timing is being seen as being particularly detrimental, given that it comes close on the heels of the Centre’s concerted push for the production-linked incentives (PLI) scheme, where the limited success in the smartphone assembly sector is now being sought t
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A senior Taiwanese official has raised concerns around India’s land and labor laws following an incident of vandalism and rioting that saw massive damage to a manufacturing unit of Taiwanese firm Wistron Corp operating outside Bangalore, India’s tech hub. In an interview to Reuters on December 15, James C. F. Huang, chairman of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council said: “We do hope that the Wistron incident in Bengaluru would be resolved as soon as possible and any harm will be controlled and give Taiwanese companies more confidence.” On December 12, contract workers – demanding back wages and better working hours – vandalized the Wistron facility causing damages of up to $7.2 million after a peaceful assembly outside the facility turned violent, Reuters separately reported.
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