{"id":1009080,"date":"2026-05-22T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009080"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:33:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:03:52","slug":"samsung-electronics-set-to-face-major-strike-on-thursday-after-union-talks-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/samsung-electronics-set-to-face-major-strike-on-thursday-after-union-talks-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics set to face major strike on Thursday after union talks collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEJONG, South Korea: Samsung Electronics&#8217; union plans for 48,000 workers to walk off the job on Thursday after efforts to clinch a deal on bonus payments fell through, threatening the health of South Korea&#8217;s economy and the global supply of semiconductors. <\/p>\n<p>Union leader Choi Seung-ho said that the 18-day strike would go ahead as \u200cmanagement had \u2060not come \u2060round on one remaining sticking point in talks mediated by the government. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to make clear that we had accepted the final proposal presented by government mediator,&#8221; he told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEJONG, South Korea: Samsung Electronics&#8217; union plans for 48,000 workers to walk off the job on Thursday after efforts to clinch a deal on bonus payments fell through, threatening the health of South Korea&#8217;s economy and the global supply of semiconductors. Union leader Choi Seung-ho said that the 18-day strike would go ahead as \u200cmanagement had \u2060not come \u2060round on one remaining sticking point in talks mediated by the government. &#8220;I want to make clear that we had accepted the final proposal presented by government mediator,&#8221; he told reporters.<\/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-1009080","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\/1009080","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=1009080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009104,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009080\/revisions\/1009104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}