CHENNAI: Nearly 120

Samsung Electronics

employees were detained by the

Tamil Nadu police

on Monday for attempting to march to the district collector’s office in Kanchipuram, near Chennai, to demand

union recognition

, wage revision talks and

better working hours

. Workers at the company’s Sunguvarchatram plant have formed the Samsung India Employees Union and tried to march to the collectorate to press their demands.

Police said they were detained because the march did not have permission.
Around 120 protesters detained at three marriage halls in Kancheepuram were let off in the evening, the police said. Samsung workers are on strike for more than a week for various demands and holding demonstrations near the plant. Samsung declined to respond to queries from TOI.
(With inputs from A Selvaraj)