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Worker protests in an iPhone production plant from India have generated around $1 million in compensation, Reuters reports. Employees in the plant, possessed by the Taiwanese-based firm Wistron, state they have not been paid exactly what they have been guaranteed and so are demanding better working conditions.
Even the Times of India has a lot of on-the-ground reports and striking movie of their protests. The information org reports,”A vast majority of the almost 2,000 workers, who had been leaving the centre after finishing their own night-shift, went on a rampage destroying the firm’s furniture, gathering units as well as tried to set fire on cars”
Karnataka: #Violence in iPhone manufacturing plant operate by Taiwan-based #Wistron Corp in Narasapura (at Kolar district) close #Bengaluru.
Employees allege they have yet to be compensated correctly.
The Times of India also includes information about the wages employees were assumed to be receiving, together with the report quoting a worker as stating”While a engineering graduate has been guaranteed Rs 21,000 ($286) a month, their salary had decreased Rs 16,000 ($218) and, then, to Rs 12,000 ($163) from recent weeks. Non-engineering graduates’ annual salary had decreased to Rs 8,000 ($109). The wages amount has been credited to our account have been decreasing and it was irritating to observe this.” Some employees claim to have grown monthly wages as small as Rs 500 ($6.80).
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