Samsung workers expected to walk off assembly lines over pay, vacation time

Samsung Electronics Co. workers are expected to walk off assembly lines Monday, beginning the biggest organised labour action in the South Korean conglomerate’s half-century history.

The largest union at the nation’s biggest company has spent the past few weeks preparing for the three-day walkout, after negotiations over pay and vacation time collapsed last month. This envisioned action marks an escalation from a single-day strike in early June — the first in Samsung’s 55 years of existence. It’s intended to send a message by disrupting production at one of the company’s most advanced chip facilities, union leaders say.