Samsung employees went on strike for the first time in company history
Samsung Electronics’ largest union went on strike for the first time in the company’s 55-year history.
Samsung Electronics’ largest union went on strike for the first time in the company’s 55-year history due to wage disputes.
The National Samsung Electronics Union, the tech giant’s largest union with about 28,400 workers, encouraged its members to take a single day off on Friday, which falls between a public holiday and a weekend on Thursday. They plan to resume normal business hours next week.
“This is a soft start and a symbolic move. But we have plans for further strikes if management refuses to communicate, we are not ruling out a general strike,” Lee Hyun-kuk, the union’s deputy general secretary, told Bloomberg News.