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Korea’s Samsung Workers Are Striking for the Very First Time

[...]Until a one-day strike last month, Samsung’s workers had never gone on strike throughout its 55-year history as a company, during a period that saw the rise of a strong labor movement in South Korea.

Yet after calling a three-day strike last week, on July 10 the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) decided to extend its strike indefinitely as the company continues to dodge negotiations over pay and holidays.

Founded in 2019, the NSEU represents about 25 percent of Samsung’s 125,000-strong South Korean workforce. The open-ended strike is the union’s latest attempt to step up pressure on the global tech giant, which has refused so far to engage in dialogue, citing the union’s lack of majority representation.

Only four years ago, in 2020, Samsung formally ended a long-standing no-union policy, which it has enforced through surveillance and intimidation.[...]

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