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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Kalyeena Makortoff and news agencies

HISTORICAL FACTS: Samsung electronics workers to extend strike indefinitely | History Defined

The logo of the Samsung Electronics Co outside the Samsung Electronics Seocho building in Seoul, South Korea
National Samsung Electronics Union members are demanding a 3.5% increase in base salary and a day off to mark the union’s founding. Photograph: Lee Jin-man/AP

Thousands of workers in South Korea have pledged to extend indefinitely the first strike at Samsung Electronics, ramping up a campaign for better pay and benefits at one of the world’s largest smartphone and AI chip makers.

A union representing about 30,000 staff – about a quarter of its employees in South Korea – said members were extending industrial action that was originally meant to last only three days, after management failed to give any indication that it would hold talks with them.

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