The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) workers shout slogans holding a placards during a general strike to disrupt production between July 8 and 10, in front of the Samsung Electronics Nano City Hwaseong Campus in Hwaseong, South Korea. - Reuters
SEOUL: More than 6,500 Samsung Electronics Co. workers walked off the job Monday (July 8) to stage a rally demanding better pay, beginning the biggest organized labor action in the South Korean conglomerate’s half-century history.
Disgruntled employees and union supporters gathered in the pouring rain outside one of Samsung’s biggest chipmaking complexes south of Seoul. Wearing red headbands proclaiming "total strike” and black raincoats, they chanted slogans and sang songs with raised fists. Union leaders, who provided the initial tally of participants, hope the highly publicized protest galvanizes a three-day walkout that will send a message to Korea’s biggest company.
