Samsung Electronics told the labor union that even if it goes on strike, 7,087 essential personnel must report to work as normal, following the court's partial approval of an injunction to prohibit unlawful industrial action. The union responded by requesting, "Please assign non-union members to work first."
On the 19th, Samsung Electronics sent an official letter to the Samsung Group supra-enterprise labor union's Samsung Electronics chapter (supra-enterprise union) and the National Samsung Electronics Labor Union (Jeonsamno), saying, "During the industrial action period, the company will draw up daily work schedules within the limits of the necessary headcount for each department at the same staffing level as usual so that safety duties and security operations can be maintained and run normally." The two unions have formed a joint struggle headquarters and have announced they will launch a general strike on the 21st.
Samsung Electronics informed the union that, based on the injunction standard, the daily required headcount totals 7,087, including 20,396 for safety duties and 4,691 for security operations. The Suwon District Court decided the previous day that ▲ security operations to prevent damage to work facilities or deterioration or spoilage of raw materials or products under Article 38, Paragraph 2 of the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act, and ▲ the maintenance and operation of safety protection facilities under Article 42, Paragraph 2 of the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act must be carried out at normal levels during the industrial action period.
During the trial, Samsung Electronics calculated the personnel related to safety duties and security operations that must be maintained during a strike and submitted them to the court. Essential personnel for safety duties included the Fire and Disaster Prevention Team of the Global Manufacturing & Infrastructure division and the Data Center Team of the AI Center division. For security operations, 2,454 in memory, 162 in system LSI, 1,109 in foundry, and 566 at the Semiconductor Research Center were designated as essential. Samsung Electronics asked the union to "guide the members notified by the work schedule to report to work as normal and perform safety duties and security operations."
In response, the supra-enterprise union requested, "Please send materials specifying headcounts by part (team) in enough detail to allow command over members of the relevant part on whether to participate in the industrial action," and added, "Please assign non-union members first so that the number of people whose basic rights are restricted can be minimized."
In the case of the injunction to prohibit unlawful industrial action that Samsung Electronics filed against the union, the court broadly accepted the company's requests by recognizing the obligation to maintain safety protection facilities and security operations. The court specifically found that tasks Samsung Electronics presented, such as preventing deterioration of wafers, the raw disks for semiconductors, also fall under security operations. It also issued an order to the supra-enterprise union prohibiting occupation of production facilities. Based on the purpose and interpretation of Article 42, Paragraph 1 of the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act, the court judged that the entire facilities cited by Samsung Electronics can be viewed as subject to a ban on occupation.