cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20398519
India: Police detain 600 striking Samsung workers at protest
Thousands of employees of the South Korean company have been on strike since September 9. They are demanding better wages, 8-hour working days, and union recognition.
Indian police on Tuesday detained around 600 employees of Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s largest semiconductor and computer chip manufacturers, and union members for organizing a street protest.
For the past four weeks, thousands of employees of the South Korean company in India have been on strike over their working conditions near the factory in Chennai and at other locations.
According to senior state police official Charles Sam Rajadurai, the protesters were detained because their march was causing public inconvenience.
These people get paid $300/month working at a plant that generates $12 billion / year. Samsung has always been evil, a shit company that makes shit products, spreading pollution everywhere it goes.
There asking for a raise of around $428 a month too.
How do we get a global union going to stop this BS everywhere? Maybe there already is one and I am unaware of it
The IWW market themselves as the “global” union. It really depends on their presence in your country, though.