“Workers have been facing multiple issues over the last few months. Although they were promised a salary of Rs 16,000 per month, they were given just Rs 12,000. There was a three months delay in payment of salaries. The workers were also made to work overtime without being paid extra,” the union member said, adding that the company management had been refusing to give an audience to workers’ grievances.
“The industrial violence in Wistron is a direct result of the brutal exploitation of workers and sweatshop-like conditions created by a company, manufacturing the most expensive mobile phones. The state government has allowed the company to flout basic rights of the workers like payment of wages and working hours,” MD Harigovind, general secretary of All India Trade Union Congress, Bengaluru said in a press release.
Wistron management was not available for comments.
