Unionized workers at Samsung Electronics have declared an indefinite strike to pressure South Korea’s biggest company to accept their calls for higher pays and other benefits.
  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
    25·
    4 months ago

    Let’s fucking go.

    I implore anyone curious about the South Korean Labor Movements to look into them. There’s a brutal and bloody fight Workers have waged against the bourgeois dictatorship, including the several thousand students slaughtered by the butcher Chun Doo-Hwan in Gwang-Ju.

    Jeon Tae-Il is a martyr who self-immolated in downtown Seoul, shouting “Workers are Humans too” and “guarantee the 3 basic labor rights,” which led to the rapid formation of several unions.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
        9·
        4 months ago

        I hope to live to see a unified Korea one day. I have deep respect for the Korean people, and the overall divide is extremely sad. There’s still hope, of course.

        One of the most beautiful through-lines culturally is the rich food culture that exists in both the North and South. Pyongyang-style Nnengmyeun is one of the most beloved styles, and is celebrated even in the Anticommunist South. The Korean people are one, divided.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
          93·
          4 months ago

          Indeed, occupied Korea has been brutalized just as much as the north, but in different ways. If the south can be freed from the clutches of the burger empire, things there would improve immeasurably.

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
      6·
      4 months ago

      South Korean strikes are handled differently from company to company. Hyundai is more traditional, outward striking, but Samsung employees have strategies of taking mass PTO around holidays to obscure who is striking and who is actually taking holiday leave. Samsung absolutely has a 0% tolerance for Unions and striking, but there do exist labor efforts among Samsung workers.