The workers unrest at the Wistron iPhone making facility in Kolar, about 80 km from IT capital Bengaluru, took a political turn on Wednesday with the arrest of the local president of the Students’ federation of India (SFI).
Comrade Srikanth, taluk president of SFI in Kolar, was picked up in connection with the violence that broke out at the Wistron factory in Narasapura early Saturday morning.
ABVP Karnataka in its tweet over the arrest of the SFI leader said: “Communist Student Wing #SFI is behind Apple plant violence in Bengaluru”: Kolar MP. Local SFI President is arrested in connection with the riot. Left ideology was always towards destruction & pulling down harmony in the society!”
Workers at the plant had gone on a rampage over the alleged delay in payment of salary and overtime wages following which more than 150 people were.
Meanwhile, Karnataka Labour Minister Shivaram Hebbar on Wednesday expressed hope that the factory would be restarting soon as the Centre is also involved in addressing issues.
Violence broke out at the Taiwanese Wistron Corporation’s plant near Kolar where iPhones and other IT products are manufactured as a large number of workers went on a rampage over issues related to payment of salary, police said.
The Taiwanese Wistron Corporation manufacturing facility in Narasapura Industrial Area manufacturing facility is touted to be the country’s first iPhone manufacturing plant, is in Kolar district.
Company officers had initially registered an FIR with the police pegging the losses at practically Rs 437 crore however an organization assertion in Taiwan, the place the corporate is headquartered, mentioned this was misguided — the losses had been estimated between Rs 25 and 50 crore.
Government officers additionally instructed Information18 that there was, certainly, a mismatch in staff pay and variety of hours put in. They mentioned that preliminary investigation factors at staff not getting their due.