Samsung Electronics talks with union end without result, union says

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics and representatives of its biggest workers’ union in South Korea, which has been on a strike, met on Tuesday but the talks ended without results, the union said.

Since earlier this month, the union has been on an indefinite strike over pay and benefits.

The gap between the two sides is too wide to reach any agreement, Lee Hyun-kuk, vice president of the National Samsung Electronics Union whose roughly 30,000 members make up almost a quarter of the company’s South Korean workforce, said on a YouTube live broadcast.