{"id":1004620,"date":"2026-04-25T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004620"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:45:10","slug":"samsung-workers-protest-over-huge-pay-gap-with-sk-hynix-threaten-long-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/samsung-workers-protest-over-huge-pay-gap-with-sk-hynix-threaten-long-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung workers protest over huge pay gap with SK Hynix, threaten long strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PYEONGTAEK, South Korea: Tens of thousands of Samsung Electronics workers rallied at a sprawling factory complex south of Seoul on Thursday, venting their anger over compensation levels ahead of a planned lengthy strike that could disrupt AI chip production. <\/p>\n<p>Union organisers put the number \u200cof protesters at 40,000, making \u2060the \u2060demonstration the largest to date for Samsung, which has long been known for its union-busting tactics but saw workers walk out for the first time in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PYEONGTAEK, South Korea: Tens of thousands of Samsung Electronics workers rallied at a sprawling factory complex south of Seoul on Thursday, venting their anger over compensation levels ahead of a planned lengthy strike that could disrupt AI chip production. Union organisers put the number \u200cof protesters at 40,000, making \u2060the \u2060demonstration the largest to date for Samsung, which has long been known for its union-busting tactics but saw workers walk out for the first time in 2024.<\/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-1004620","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\/1004620","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=1004620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004621,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004620\/revisions\/1004621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}