HWASEONG, South Korea — Workers at South Korean tech giant Samsung began a three-day general strike over pay and benefits on Monday, the head of a union representing tens of thousands of employees told Agence France-Presse, warning the action could impact memory chip production.
Samsung Electronics is the world's largest memory chip maker and accounts for a significant chunk of global output of the high-end chips.Wearing rain jackets and ribbons saying 'fight with solidarity', thousands of workers gathered outside the company's foundry and semiconductor factory in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, an hour south of Seoul.
'We're making history.'Workers rejected the offer of a 5.1 percent pay hike in March, with the union having previously outlined demands including improvements to annual leave and transparent performance-based bonuses.Samsung declined a request for comment.'While the ongoing strike is only scheduled for three days, the participating members include those working in chip assembly lines,' business professor Kim Dae-jong at Sejong University told AFP.
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