"CITU to resume stir as Samsung seeks ‘written apology from all 1K workers’", 5 March 2025

The standoff between Samsung and CITU is yet to resolve as another round of talks failed on Tuesday. While CITU had initially sought the withdrawal of suspension of the 23 workers, CITU sources said that at the end of the talks, they were willing to send the workers back to the Samsung unit at Sriperumbudur to resume duty if the 23 workers were assured a fair probe and recalled to work at a later date.

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“However, Samsung representatives said that all the 1,000 workers will be allowed to join duty only if they submit an apology letter stating that they were responsible for disrupting production and allegedly marching towards the senior management offices on the second floor. This can and will be used against them in future and we cannot accept this demand,” said E Muthukumar, Samsung India Workers Union (SIWU) president.

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the Samsung management has made it clear that while the ‘no work no pay’ rule would apply to the days that the striking workers did not turn up for work, they would additionally deduct eight days of wages since the strike was ‘illegal’