{"id":1006820,"date":"2026-05-05T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006820"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:14:50","slug":"samsung-union-in-korea-splits-as-non-chip-workers-exit-over-semiconductor-focused-bonus-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/05\/samsung-union-in-korea-splits-as-non-chip-workers-exit-over-semiconductor-focused-bonus-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung union in Korea splits as non-chip workers exit over semiconductor-focused bonus demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: Samsung Electronics&#8217; majority labour group in Korea is facing a major internal split as non-chip workers begin a mass exit over strike demands that favour the semiconductor division. More than 2,500 members resigned in a 10-day period as the rift over chip-focused bonuses deepened between different arms of the tech giant. <\/p>\n<p>According to a report by The Korea Herald, withdrawal requests on the union&#8217;s website surged recently. Daily exits jumped from fewer than 100 per day last month to more than 1,000 this past Wednesday. Most of the departures come from Samsung&#8217;s Device Experience (DX) division, which oversees smartphones, televisions, and other consumer electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: Samsung Electronics&#8217; majority labour group in Korea is facing a major internal split as non-chip workers begin a mass exit over strike demands that favour the semiconductor division. More than 2,500 members resigned in a 10-day period as the rift over chip-focused bonuses deepened between different arms of the tech giant. According to a report by The Korea Herald, withdrawal requests on the union&#8217;s website surged recently. Daily exits jumped from fewer than 100 per day last month to more than 1,000 this past Wednesday. Most of the departures come from Samsung&#8217;s Device Experience (DX) division, which oversees smartphones, [&hellip;]<\/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-1006820","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\/1006820","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=1006820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}