{"id":29185,"date":"2026-05-25T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/29185\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:20:11","slug":"samsung-electronics-union-hits-88-turnout-in-bonus-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/29185\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics Union Hits 88% Turnout in Bonus Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Members of the Samsung Group Cho-Gieop Labor Union hold a press conference declaring their official status as a majority union in front of Samsung Electronics' Seocho headquarters in Seocho-gu, Seoul, on the 17th of last month. Yonhap News - Seoul Economic Daily Finance News from South Korea\" title=\"Samsung Electronics Union Hits 88% Turnout in Bonus Vote\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/news-p.v1.20260525.e5731af2151f412b89d23488aac9c9e1_P1.jpg\"\/>Members of the Samsung Group Cho-Gieop Labor Union hold a press conference declaring their official status as a majority union in front of Samsung Electronics&#8217; Seocho headquarters in Seocho-gu, Seoul, on the 17th of last month. Yonhap News<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) labor union recorded an 88% turnout in its vote on a tentative wage agreement just four days after balloting began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">According to the Samsung Electronics chapter of the Samsung Group Supra-Enterprise Union on the 25th, the turnout among union members for the tentative wage agreement reached 87.93% as of 4:30 p.m. that day. The figure rose slightly from 85% a day earlier. At this pace, turnout is expected to reach about 90% by the time the vote closes at 10 a.m. on the 27th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">The tentative agreement is reportedly drawing support mainly from members in the memory business division, while opposition is coming primarily from members in the non-memory and finished products (DX) divisions. The tentative agreement includes a provision to pay 10.5% of business performance as a special management performance bonus. Under this formula, the memory business division, which led earnings growth, would receive an average of 600 million won per person, while the non-memory division would receive 160 million won. The non-memory division is pushing back against the smaller compensation compared with memory, and the DX division is also resisting receiving less than the loss-making non-memory division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">While the Device Solutions (DS) division accounts for the majority of union members, the possibility of rejection remains depending on the extent of defections among non-memory members. &#8220;If it passes, we will improve the areas that need improvement and build a stronger organization to create a better union,&#8221; said Choi Seung-ho, chairman of the Supra-Enterprise Union. &#8220;If it is rejected, I will delegate the negotiations to the rest of the executive committee and hold a vote of confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Samsung Group Cho-Gieop Labor Union hold a press conference declaring their official status as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[6942,800,19012,19008,127,276,18157,634,16720],"class_list":["post-29185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-samsung-electronics","tag-dx-division","tag-labor-union","tag-memory-business","tag-non-memory-division","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-special-performance-bonus","tag-supra-enterprise-union","tag-wage-agreement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29185","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=29185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}