Samsung union stages mass rally over bonus fight

Samsung Electronics' labor union rallied 37,000 workers by its own count at the company's semiconductor campus in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday, in its largest show of force ahead of a general strike threatened for next month. Hours earlier, a small group of retail shareholders staged a counterdemonstration at the campus gates. Min Gyeong-kwon, 47, who organized the protest, called the union's bonus demands "no different from a predatory creditor's" and said threatening to halt product

By The Korea Herald