There are allegations that inside Samsung Electronics, someone tried to compile a list to track whether employees had joined a labor union by using personal information. The company formally asked police to investigate the matter.
According to the industry on the 13th, Samsung Electronics said in an internal notice on the 10th that it confirmed that in a group messenger chat of a specific department, a list containing the department names, full names, employee numbers, and whether they had joined the union for dozens of people had been shared. Signs emerged that someone tried to create a so-called "blacklist."
Samsung Electronics said extracting employee information for purposes unrelated to work and sharing it is a clear criminal act and a serious human rights violation, and it is known to have filed a criminal complaint on the 9th with the Hwaseong Dongtan Police Station in Gyeonggi Province on suspicion of violating the Personal Information Protection Act.
Some speculate that certain employees abused the "check duplicate employee number" function on the union sign-up site to verify whether specific employees had joined the union, then drew up and circulated a list. Earlier, the union, when announcing a general strike plan, made remarks to the effect that it would single out employees who did not participate. This has fueled suspicions inside the company that the union was involved in creating the blacklist.