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11 Jan 2015

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Business Standard

India: Foxconn workers to conduct hunger strike to protest suspension of operations, company trying to find a solution through a dialogue

workers are planning to conduct a hunger strike in Chennai on January 23 raising the workers' concerns over the suspension of operations by Foxconn India, in itsfacility, said the workers' union...The workers, along with the members of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-backed Labour Progressive Front (LPF) and others, today conducted a protest march to the District Collector's office in Kancheepuram, raising its protest on the alleged neglect of the administration on the ongoing labour issue in Foxconn India...The company, earlier in a notice displayed at the boundary of the facility, said, "We are not able to give jobs to all the workers, since we don't have orders to give jobs...the company is trying to find a solution through a dialogue and till that time the workers has to be patient and extend full co-operation...One of Foxconn's key customer..Nokia...suspended operations from November. Nokia's plant, which employed around 8,000 workers directly and another 21,000 indirectly, had to shut its plant following a tax dispute that prevented its transfer to which bought the Finnish company's handset business early this year.