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Samsung workers end over a month-long strike at Chennai plant
- IBJ Bureau
- Oct 16, 2024
The workers’ strike at Samsung India’s plant near Chennai has been called off, after workers resolved the issues amicably and the management announced several welfare measures on October 15.
A statement by the Tamil Nadu Labour Department said that after instructions from Chief Minister M K Stalin and other ministers, officials from various departments conducted meetings with concerned parties. Based on these conciliatory talks, it was decided to call off the strike with immediate effect and resume work.
The management of Samsung India announced several measures in the interest of the workers, according to the communication by the State Labour Department.
Workers also received assurance that the management “will not victimise” those who had participated in the strike after resumption of work.
The management has promised a written assurance to the charter of demand filed by the workers before the conciliation officer, said the State Labour Department. The striking workers of Samsung India’s plant too have assured that they will cooperate with the management, and will not do any act that is “prejudicial to the interest of the management”.
A group of over 1,000 striking workers at the Samsung Electronics’ Chennai factory were holding a sit-in protest that had entered its 37th day.
The plant – one of Samsung’s two factories in India – employs roughly 1,800 permanent workers and makes refrigerators, TVs and washing machines. The other one in Uttar Pradesh makes smartphones.
Critical to Samsung’s ambitions in India, the plant accounted for roughly one-fifth of its $12 billion sales from India in FY23.
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