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Samsung India asks TN government to intervene to provide ease of doing business following protest
The New Indian Express Kochi
|February 21, 2025
SAMSUNG India has sought the intervention of the state government to ensure "ease of doing business" in Tamil Nadu and "protect the safety of workers" after a few protesting workers on Thursday morning entered the shop floor of the plant near Sriperumbudur and asked the contract workers "unlawfully" engaged in the production line to leave the spot.
On Thursday evening, the CITU-backed Samsung India Workers Union wound up its sit-in strike at the plant that had been going on since February 5 and retreated from the spot. CITU sources said that henceforth, the workers will hold their protest outside the plant. The state labour department advanced the next round of conciliatory talks to Thursday from the initially scheduled February 24, considering the volatile situation at the facility. However, senior labour department officials told TNIE that representatives from Samsung were not present for the talks on Thursday and had sought time to appear, citing the arrangements being made
This story is from the February 21, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kochi.
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