Bengaluru: The workers of Taiwan headquartered Wistron Corporation, which manufactures iPhone near here went on a rampage on Saturday in the facility over issues related to ‘salary’, police said.
Quoting preliminary inputs, police said employees at the facility in the Narasapura Industrial Area of Kolar district, about 51 kilometers from here, rampaged through the plant premises overturning cars and damaging furniture besides other things.
A police officer told PTI that workers pelted stones, smashed glass windows, damaged vehicles, furniture, computers and laptops in connection with ‘salary related issues.’
According to sources in the company, many workers were involved in the violent incident. When contacted, there was no immediate reaction from the company over the incident and claims on ‘salary issues.’
Karnataka: Violence erupts at the Wistron iPhone manufacturing unit in Kolar
Visuals of vandalism from inside the plant pic.twitter.com/1MmtDtc2kH
— ANI (@ANI) December 12, 2020
A trade union leader, claiming information from the plant alleged most employees -on contract- were not paid ‘on time’ besides concerns over ‘many deductions’ from their salary.
Wistron manufactures iPhone 7 for Apple, IT products for Lenovo, Microsoft, among others.
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Congratulations, New India.
From the visuals it is clear youth like these will enjoy doing things like Bangalore riots or Delhi riots, not working in a manufacturing unit and learning new skills. Their value system sure will propel New India forward to be good at rioting and destroying public property.
First it was the Toyota plant now it is the wistron plant. If trade union leaders are irresponsible we may not get any industry. This also explains why the global corporates prefer china and other SE Asian countries. We don’t hear of vandalism from thoes countries.
Also it is time that we make vandalism a serious offence.