{"id":830826,"date":"2024-07-09T10:09:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=830826"},"modified":"2024-07-09T10:09:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:39:45","slug":"et-explainer-why-are-south-korean-samsung-workers-protesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/09\/et-explainer-why-are-south-korean-samsung-workers-protesting\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Explainer: Why are South Korean Samsung workers protesting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Samsung Electronics workers initiated a three-day strike on Monday, led by the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), demanding improved wages, additional annual leave, and revisions to the company&#8217;s bonus system.<\/p>\n<p>What are the union\u2019s demands? The NSEU, representing nearly a quarter of the company\u2019s South Korean workforce, advocates for an additional day of annual leave, specifically for unionised workers, alongside adjustments to Samsung&#8217;s bonus structure to ensure fairness and transparency. Union officials also expressed dissatisfaction with the current bonus calculations, where executives\u2019 bonuses are tied to personal performance goals, in contrast to rank-and-file workers whose bonuses are determined differently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Samsung Electronics workers initiated a three-day strike on Monday, led by the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), demanding improved wages, additional annual leave, and revisions to the company&#8217;s bonus system. What are the union\u2019s demands? The NSEU, representing nearly a quarter of the company\u2019s South Korean workforce, advocates for an additional day of annual leave, specifically for unionised workers, alongside adjustments to Samsung&#8217;s bonus structure to ensure fairness and transparency. Union officials also expressed dissatisfaction with the current bonus calculations, where executives\u2019 bonuses are tied to personal performance goals, in contrast to rank-and-file workers whose bonuses are determined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-830826","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\/830826","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}