Samsung employees on indefinite strike with demand for salary increase and service facilities

According to The Korea Herald, there are about 36,570 members in the union and this is about 25 percent of Samsung's total number of employees.

Samsung has confirmed that about 5,000 of the union members have left work and responded that the strike did not affect the company's production operations. The union is of the opinion that the company must listen to the condition that the company's activities and production have been affected and that the salary should be increased by 5.1 percent since January.

'Even after the first phase of the general strike, the company did not make any attempt to negotiate or agree, this time our aim is not only to affect the company's activities but also to explain how serious our situation is,' says Park Seol, a senior member of the union.

Samsung Electronics is a major part of South Korea's Samsung Group . The company is also the world's largest manufacturer of memory chips, smartphones and TVs. The company has an annual revenue of more than 258 billion US dollars and has a 30% share of the global TV market in 2023. The data of the company producing about one billion mobile phones at cheap and expensive prices has been published.

like this, With a market value of more than 500 billion US dollars, this company is also known as the world's largest memory chip manufacturer. Samsung, one of the largest companies in South Korea, which is the fourth largest economy in Asia, faced the first rally and strike in its history last month.

There has been a dispute between the company and the union over issues such as leave, bonus, and the demand to increase the salary . Samsung's efforts to prevent union activity with an aggressive strategy in the company seem to be gradually failing.