CHENNAI: Samsung employees’ trade union will hold talks with the company management regarding wage revision and better working conditions after it was recognised by the Tamil Nadu labour department.
The state govt on Monday registered the Chennai plant workers’ trade union –Samsung India Thozhilalar Sangam — after a Madras high court directive to decide on the matter.
Members of the union are expected to hold tripartite talks with the company representatives and labour department officials on Jan 30, according to workers and functionaries involved in the discussion.
The key demand is increasing wages to Rs 36,000 over three years, said Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) state president A Soundararajan.
“Our demands are pay hike, bonus, insurance benefits, leave, reducing the working hours and a five-day work week,” he said.
Around 1,400 employees are members of the union, he said.
Hundreds of Samsung employees participated in a strike for more than a month last year demanding, among other things, registration of the workers’ union. The strike affected the production at the electronics manufacturing facility.