updated: Dec 12 2020, 21:19 ist
Violence erupted at Wistron s iPhone manufacturing plant at Narasapura in Kolar district near Bengaluru on Saturday over delayed salary payments.
The incident happened at 6.30 am on Saturday after nearly 2,000 workers came to the end of their night-shift. In video footage of the incident, workers could be seen smashing the offices of senior executives, the factory’s front lobby and flipping parked cars.
Sources said that the incident was triggered by weeks of smouldering unrest over lack of payments. “The issue has been festering for about 8 to 10 weeks, during which employees were subject to arbitrary changes to their work contracts. About 90 per cent of the 8,000-strong workforce are contractual workers with a promised salary of Rs 16,000 per month for an 8-hour work shift. But over the last few months many were being paid only Rs 12,000 and were also told to work for up to 12 hours a day,” the source said.