Samsung union in South Korea says will strike indefinitely
The Hindu
A workers’ union at tech giant Samsung Electronics in South Korea said it would continue to strike indefinitely.
A workers' union at tech giant Samsung Electronics in South Korea said on Wednesday it would continue to strike indefinitely, stepping up its campaign for better pay and benefits.
The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), whose roughly 30,000 members make up almost a quarter of the firm's South Korean workforce, said it has decided to continue striking because management has shown no indication of holding talks after a strike that started on Monday.
"We haven't spoken to management since we started the strike on Monday," said Lee Hyun-kuk, the union's vice president.
The union said it would extend the strike initially planned to last three days through Wednesday. Lee told Reuters that the union found its strike has disrupted production on certain chip lines such as with equipment running more slowly.
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Samsung previously said the strike has caused no disruption to production. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
The union is becoming more vocal and seeking to be treated as an equal partner, adding to challenges at the world's biggest memory chipmaker which is struggling to navigate competition in chips used for artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
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