Samsung Electronics union in South Korea says will strike indefinitely

SEOUL: The labour union for staff at Samsung Electronics in South Korea will continue to strike indefinitely, it stated in a assertion on its web living on Wednesday (Jul 10).

The Nationwide Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), whose roughly 30,000 members non-public up almost a quarter of the agency’s South Korean group, stated it has decided to continue inserting attributable to administration has confirmed no arrangement of keeping talks after a strike that started on Monday.

The union stated it will maybe maybe perchance maybe prolong the strike at the birth planned to closing three days through Wednesday, adding that the strike has disrupted production.

Samsung beforehand stated the strike has ended in no disruption to production. It did no longer straight acknowledge to a place a query to for comment on the indefinite strike.

Shares of Samsung Electronics had been buying and selling up 0.1 per cent, versus the benchmark KOSPI index’s 0.1 per cent tumble as at 12.54am GMT.