Samsung Electronics averts an 18-day chip strike with a wage and stock bonus deal for 48,000 union workers, triggering an 8% KOSPI rally and easing AI supply fears.

The labour union at South Korean chip giant Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it would launch a planned strike after talks over bonus payouts collapsed.

A planned strike at South Korean chip giant Samsung Electronics will go ahead from Thursday, its union said, after talks on bonus payouts collapsed, raising concerns over a…

"A BoK report to the president estimated a potential impact of up to KRW30 trillion in lost production."

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Deal struck just hours before planned action

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Samsung Electronics' shares surged over 6% after the tech giant and its union reached a tentative pay deal, averting a potential strike. The planned 18-day walkout by nearly…

Another round of negotiations led by South Korea's minister for labor and employment Kim Young-hoon resulted in a tentative agreement.

Samsung averted its first-ever chip division strike by agreeing to share 13% of operating profits with workers, avoiding $11.7B in potential losses.

The tentative deal, which involves 12% of profits being paid out as a bonus to employees over a 10-year period, will now go to a vote among over 70,000 union members at the Korean…

Samsung Electronics reached a tentative wage deal with its largest union, averting an 18-day strike that threatened memory-chip supply chains critical to AI and crypto.

Samsung Electronics' shares soared up to 6.5% after a tentative wage agreement with its South Korean union, averting a potential strike that could disrupt global chip supplies.

Samsung Electronics shares soared 8% after the company secured a deal with its Korean union, avoiding a potentially damaging strike.

A planned 18-day strike by some 48,000 union members has now been suspended, while the agreement, which was mediated by the government, is put to a vote between May 22 and May 27

Samsung shares and the benchmark KOSPI both rocketed nearly 8 per cent higher in morning tradE. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Samsung Electronics' shares surged on Thursday after it clinched an 11th-hour deal with its South Korean union to avert a strike, although the terms which included bonuses of…

The South Korean benchmark Kospi surged on Thursday, led by a sharp rally in Samsung Electronics after the memory chip giant averted a strike through a last-min

The last-minute agreement between Samsung Electronics and its labor union may have averted a potentially crippling strike at the world’s largest memory chipmake

Benchmark KOSPI rises more than 8 percent following deal to avert strike at top memory chip maker.

Samsung Electronics labour union suspends planned strike action after reaching 11th-hour deal over pay and bonuses