{"id":1010404,"date":"2026-05-28T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010404"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:25:34","slug":"samsungs-416000-chip-worker-bonuses-may-reshape-labour-battles-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/28\/samsungs-416000-chip-worker-bonuses-may-reshape-labour-battles-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s $416,000 chip worker bonuses may reshape labour battles in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: The deal Samsung Electronics struck with its union averts a massive strike and gives its memory chip workers eye-popping bonuses. It also opens a Pandora&#8217;s box for companies in South Korea &#8211; a country known for militant wage-bargaining. <\/p>\n<p>Unionised Samsung workers voted in favour of the government-mediated pact on Wednesday, marking the first big win for a Samsung union. More significantly, it is only the second time that a major South Korean company has agreed in writing to reward workers with a fixed percentage of operating profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: The deal Samsung Electronics struck with its union averts a massive strike and gives its memory chip workers eye-popping bonuses. It also opens a Pandora&#8217;s box for companies in South Korea &#8211; a country known for militant wage-bargaining. Unionised Samsung workers voted in favour of the government-mediated pact on Wednesday, marking the first big win for a Samsung union. More significantly, it is only the second time that a major South Korean company has agreed in writing to reward workers with a fixed percentage of operating profit.<\/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-1010404","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\/1010404","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=1010404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010431,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010404\/revisions\/1010431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}