The Samsung Electronics labor union, which is poised to stage a general strike demanding the payment of a 15% performance-based bonus, said it will hold a rally in front of Chair Lee Jae-yong's residence on the first day of the walkout on the 21st of next month.

Union members chant slogans at the 4·23 Struggle Resolution Rally hosted by the Samsung Electronics Labor Union Joint Struggle Headquarters at the Samsung Electronics Pyeongtaek Campus in Godeok-dong, Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, on the 23rd./Courtesy of News1

According to the Samsung Electronics super-company union on the 24th, the union notified the Yongsan Police Station in Seoul on the morning of the day that it would hold a rally around 1 p.m. on the 21st of next month in front of Chair Lee Jae-yong's residence in Hannam-dong.

The reported number of participants is about 50. A union official said the headcount is not fixed and explained that it is more likely to be held as a press conference to announce the general strike plan rather than a protest.

About 40,000 members of the Samsung Electronics union gathered at the Pyeongtaek campus around 1 p.m. the previous day for a rally to vow a fight.

At the rally, the union announced a general strike from the 21st of next month to June 7, urging the institutionalization of the abolition of the cap on performance bonuses.

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