President Lee Jae Myung, who is a former rights lawyer and is seen as leading a union-friendly government, said in a social media post on May 18 that management rights should be respected as much as labour rights.

He said that workers should receive fair compensation for their labour, while shareholders who bear risks and losses through investments also deserve a share of corporate profit.

Can't stop laughing at this, Damn.

To look at this another way: the government of South Korea has decided to give people the feeling of a strike without actually letting it affect bottom lines in any meaningful way. That is, they have relegated the strike (a key utility of those fighting for workers' rights) to being a tool used solely to assuage discontent in the short term. Without economic teeth, it cannot be used to enhance the lives of workers, which is ultimately the explicit goal of any strike.

South Korea is of course not alone in reducing or eliminating the rights of its citizens so that corporations continue to profit at their expense.

I don't think these people understand what a strike is. Those in power forget that their power is provisional to what the people are willing to put up with.

GTFO

Nothing is more powerful than a union that can shut down a billion dollar company while also scaring the ever loving shit out of its own government.

This is the reason why unions should be everywhere.

Power to the people!

Aside from the obviously skewed interests of the court, they do understand what a state is for, and how it usually ends, if that shifts?

Then have them go make the chips themselves. Maybe if you weren't such greedy fks we wouldn't have this problem.

So how's the government gonna enforce this? Slavery?

That's a good way to start a general strike in the country.

samsung owns korea practically.

Isn't that kind of the point, though?

So maintain chip volume, but switch production from memory chips to corn chips.

That's hilarious.

Adding to pressure on the union, a South Korean court partially granted Samsung’s request for an injunction, ordering the union to ensure any strike did not disrupt production.

The ruling means that a strike must not lead to the degradation of materials used in production, while operations related to safety and avoiding product damage must be maintained at normal levels, a court spokesperson said by telephone.

So… they can stop producing chips?