{"id":1004602,"date":"2026-04-25T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004602"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:46:41","slug":"samsungs-chip-output-drops-overnight-as-workers-protest-over-pay-union-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/samsungs-chip-output-drops-overnight-as-workers-protest-over-pay-union-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s chip output drops overnight as workers protest over pay, union says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Samsung Electronics&#8217; production of foundry and memory chips at its facilities in South Korea dropped 58% \u200cand 18%, \u2060respectively, \u2060during the overnight shift on Thursday as unionised workers attended a protest demanding higher wages, the company&#8217;s union said. <\/p>\n<p>Many workers, \u2060who joined \u200cprotest on Thursday at a factory \u2060complex in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, skipped the overnight shift from 10 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday at the company&#8217;s South Korean \u200cproduction facilities after the protest, according to the union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Samsung Electronics&#8217; production of foundry and memory chips at its facilities in South Korea dropped 58% \u200cand 18%, \u2060respectively, \u2060during the overnight shift on Thursday as unionised workers attended a protest demanding higher wages, the company&#8217;s union said. Many workers, \u2060who joined \u200cprotest on Thursday at a factory \u2060complex in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, skipped the overnight shift from 10 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday at the company&#8217;s South Korean \u200cproduction facilities after the protest, according to the union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004623,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004602\/revisions\/1004623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}