Seoul: Unionised employees at tech big Samsung have voted in favour of a strike after failing to succeed in a deal on wage hikes with administration, business sources mentioned on Monday.
Out of the 27,458 members throughout 5 completely different labour unions throughout the tech big, 20,853 participated within the vote held from March 18 to final Friday, with 20,330, or 74 per cent of the whole, voting in favour of the strike, sources informed Yonhap information company.
This vote grants the unionised employees the authorized authority to proceed with a strike if a 10-day mediation interval, organized by the Nationwide Labor Relations Fee, fails to yield a decision.
Wage negotiations between administration and labour broke down in February after rounds of talks over this 12 months’s wage enhance.
The unions have demanded a 6.5 per cent pay enhance with a further paid day without work.
Samsung Electronics introduced final month that it has agreed with its employees to a mean 5.1 per cent pay increase for the 12 months.
The corporate has not had a strike since its founding in 1969.
