三星电子DX工会计划在李在镕住所外举行无限期集会

A Samsung Electronics labor union made up mainly of employees in the company's finished-products division plans to stage an open-ended rally outside the home of Chairman Jay Y. Lee.
The Donghaeng union will hold a launch ceremony on the 18th and continue rallies and one-person protests near Lee's residence in Seoul's Yongsan district, according to industry sources on the 5th. The union has not set an end date, the sources said.
The union argues that the Device eXperience (DX) division was sidelined during the wage negotiations that Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) management and labor agreed on in May. It also contends that the gap in compensation with the Device Solutions (DS) division, which handles the semiconductor business, is excessive.
Its demands include 1,000 treasury shares for each DX division employee, the creation and distribution of a common pool of funds based on a set share of company-wide performance, and a uniform base-up rate across the entire company.
The union previously held a rally near Samsung Electronics' Seocho office in Seoul's Gangnam district on the 21st of last month. At the time, it argued that deteriorating profitability was a management failure by executives and called for dialogue with management on the DX division's demands.
Some in the business community criticize the call for 1,000 treasury shares per person as an unreasonable demand for a DX division facing a business crisis. Others say the union lacks justification for taking collective action belatedly, after the wage negotiations were settled through government mediation and an agreement was reached between management and labor.