Samsung workers affiliated with the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) continued with their strike at the company's plant in Sriperumbudur on Wednesday. As the protest entered its 31st day, there was a heavy police presence at the protest site.
The Samsung employees on Wednesday organised a one-day non-violent hunger strike on the day of Gandhi Jayanti. The protest has entered its twenty second day today.
CITU Tamil Nadu Secretary Muthukumar has said that if the police prohibit Samsung employees' protest near the company's factory in Chennai, they will approach courts to safeguard their rights.
Muthukumar, CITU, Tamil Nadu State Secretary said that the Samsung management has initiated a case in the Kanchipuram court that the protestors should sit 500 metres away from the premises, while they are already sitting two kms away.
In a demonstration of solidarity with the rape and murder victim from West Bengal, the state committee of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) Himachal Pradesh, alongside hospital workers, staged a silent protest outside Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC).
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) held a state-wide protest in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday against the "anti-worker" policies of the BJP-led government at the Centre.
The Sanyukta Kisan Morcha and the Tripura unit of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) on Friday called for protests in the state against the alleged security crackdown on agitating farmers amid their protests at various border points in the country.
The Anna Thozhil Sangam Perava, Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) and other Labourers Unions said in the Madras High Court that their members shall report to duty in public interest and suspend their strike till January 19 when conciliation talks are to happen before the Labour Commissi
As the transport union indefinite bus in Tamil Nadu continued for the second day, Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) State president A Soundararajan on Wednesday claimed that the state government is "playing politics."