SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics’ union in South Korea said on Monday it would launch a general strike until its demands for better pay and time off were met.
The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), whose roughly 28,000 members make up over a fifth of the firm’s workforce, is asking the company for commitments such as improvements to the performance-based bonus system and an extra day of annual leave.
“We are declaring a general strike today,” Son Woo-mok, president of NSEU, said in a live YouTube broadcast. “Until our demands are met, we will fight with the ‘no pay no work’ general strike”.
Samsung Electronics did not give details on the expected duration of the strike.
(Reporting by Ju-min Park, Heekyong Yang, Jihoon LeeEditing by Bernadette Baum)
