Samsung Union Steps Up Pressure Over Pay With Three-Day Strike
- Largest union is aiming to disrupt production at chipmaker
- The action threatens to spur similar labor activity in Korea
Thousands of Samsung Electronics Co. workers walked off the job Monday to stage a rally demanding better pay, beginning the biggest organized labor action in the South Korean conglomerate’s half-century history.
Disgruntled employees and union supporters gathered in the pouring rain outside one of Samsung’s biggest chipmaking complexes south of Seoul. Wearing red headbands proclaiming “total strike” and black raincoats, they formed neatly organized ranks along a broad thoroughfare, chanting slogans and singing in unison with raised fists.