As Samsung Electronics labor and management move into a second round of post-adjustment talks on the 18th, employees in the Samsung Electronics finished goods (DX·Device eXperience) institutional sector filed for an injunction demanding a halt to the negotiations.
According to legal sources, Law Firm Nova said on the 15th that employees in the Samsung Electronics finished goods (DX·Device eXperience) institutional sector filed with the Suwon District Court for an injunction to stop collective bargaining against the supra-enterprise labor union Samsung Electronics Branch.
The application reportedly states that the supra-enterprise union violated its bylaws head-on by substituting a bargaining proposal with the results of a "Naver Form survey" conducted for a week last year without a general meeting resolution. Under the supra-enterprise union's bylaws, bargaining proposals must be finalized at the general meeting.
Notices related to the general meeting must be given seven days in advance, but the notice was made just one day prior, Law Firm Nova said. It also pointed out that the leadership, citing a lack of time, coordinated 20 agenda items internally without gathering overall opinions, and that it had not convened a single delegates' meeting in the three years since its establishment.
They argued in particular that, as all three steps specified in the joint bargaining team memorandum of understanding—each union's own resolution → integration and coordination → working-level consultations—were skipped, demands to improve the unique working conditions of the DX institutional sector were excluded from the options. They added that more than 6,000 of the 14,553 DX institutional sector members in the supra-enterprise union as of late March have withdrawn, raising talk that the majority-union status is being shaken.
Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics labor and management will begin a second post-adjustment meeting at 10 a.m. on the 18th at the Central Labor Relations Commission in Sejong. The talks are being resumed through an additional post-adjustment procedure arranged by the government, following last week's breakdown. It is seen as effectively the final mediation before the general strike on the 21st.