{"id":64519,"date":"2024-05-30T03:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/29\/samsung-union-strike"},"modified":"2024-05-30T03:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:03:05","slug":"samsung-workers-union-announces-first-ever-strike-for-chipmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64519","title":{"rendered":"Samsung workers\u2019 union announces first-ever strike for chipmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 28,000 people at tech giant in South Korea will strike for one day on 7 June after negotiations over wages stall<\/p>\n<p>A major union representing tens of thousands of people at the South Korean tech giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> Electronics said on Wednesday that workers will go on strike for the first time, potentially threatening key global semiconductor supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said union members, around 20% of the company workforce, or 28,000 people, would use annual leave to strike for one day on 7 June, leaving the door open for a potential general strike down the road.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/29\/samsung-union-strike\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 28,000 people at tech giant in South Korea will strike for one day on 7 June after negotiations over wages stallA major union representing tens of thousands of people at the South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that worke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,222,58,1478,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-south-korea","category-technology","category-unions","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64520,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64519\/revisions\/64520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}