Samsung Workers: A major strike has started in the world’s leading smartphone and electronic device manufacturing company Samsung. About 31,000 employees in South Korea went on an indefinite strike from Wednesday. The largest union of Samsung Electronics has called for this strike. Earlier, the employees had called for a three-day partial strike. Due to their demands not being met, they have decided to go on a long strike. This strike by Samsung can have a negative impact on the entire world.
Members of the company’s largest union NSEU went on strike.
According to CNN report, The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) said that earlier this week, about 6000 employees working in the semiconductor division had started a strike. Now about 31 thousand people have participated in it. One-fourth of Samsung’s total employees are members of NSEU. All of them have demanded better salaries and improved working conditions. The union warned that if Samsung does not start talks soon, they will have to regret a lot.
Despite good financial condition, staff is not getting benefits
Soon Vumok, a union leader, said that it would take a lot of time to restart the factories that were closed due to the strike. Samsung had claimed that due to the boom in Artificial Intelligence, their operations will increase by about 1450 percent on an annual basis in the second quarter. Also, the company’s profit had increased 10 times in the first quarter of the year 2024. However, workers allege that the effect of such good financial condition is not visible on their salaries.
Samsung ready to talk to employees
Union leaders said that the company is not treating its employees well. For the last 10 years he has been telling us the same story that at present there is a situation of crisis. Apart from this, the company has also reduced the performance bonus on a large scale. On the other hand, Samsung said that it is ready to talk to the employees. We will ensure that this strike does not have any impact on our production.
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