{"id":14444,"date":"2026-05-12T21:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/14444\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:54:14","slug":"samsung-electronics-labour-union-fail-to-reach-pay-deal-as-strike-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/14444\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics, labour union fail to reach pay deal as strike looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union have not reached a pay agreement. This impasse follows marathon talks. A lengthy strike is now planned for May 21. The union representative expressed regret that union requests were not addressed. This potential strike could disrupt the production of AI and other chips.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/samsung-electronics-labour-union-fail-to-reach-pay-deal-as-strike-looms.jpg\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Image for Samsung Electronics, labour union fail to reach pay deal as strike looms\" width=\"650\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" class=\"jsx-fc85d5530152de43 \"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/samsung-electronics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Samsung Electronics<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/south-korean-labor-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Korean labor union<\/a> failed to reach a <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/pay-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pay deal<\/a> on Wednesday, its union leader said, ahead \u200cof \u2060a planned \u2060lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">strike<\/a> that threatens to disrupt production of AI and other chips.<\/p>\n<p>The impasse followed hours of marathon talks on Monday and Tuesday under a \u2060government-mediated process, \u200cas pressure from the public and the government \u2060mounted on <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/samsung\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Samsung<\/a> workers to compromise on the pay deal and avert a strike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to express some regret that none of the agenda items requested by \u200cthe union have been addressed,&#8221; union representative Choi Seung-ho \u200btold \u200breporters at \u2060about 3 a.m. local time on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The union has said that if \u200bits demands are not met, workers will strike on May 21 for 18 days.<\/p>\n<p> Add <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/123467569.cms.png\" alt=\"ET Logo\" class=\"jsx-4613454a9ab3267c\"\/> as a Reliable and Trusted News Source<\/p>\n<p>Elevate your knowledge and leadership skills at a cost cheaper than your daily tea.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Synopsis Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union have not reached a pay agreement. This impasse follows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3988,10714,7085,10713,509,127,276,10712,808,10715],"class_list":{"0":"post-14444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-samsung-electronics","8":"tag-ai-chips","9":"tag-government-mediation","10":"tag-labor-negotiations","11":"tag-pay-deal","12":"tag-production-disruption","13":"tag-samsung","14":"tag-samsung-electronics","15":"tag-south-korean-labor-union","16":"tag-strike","17":"tag-worker-demands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}