A request for an injunction filed by finished goods (DX·Device eXperience) institutional sector employees at Samsung Electronics to halt collective bargaining with the cross-enterprise union Samsung Electronics Branch was dismissed by a court.
According to legal sources on the 26th, the Civil Division 31 of the Suwon District Court (Presiding Judge Shin Woo-jung) dismissed on the 15th a request for an injunction to "halt 2026 wage and collective bargaining" that the "Samsung Electronics Employee Rights Restoration Legal Response Alliance," made up of five Samsung Electronics DX institutional sector union members, filed against the cross-enterprise union.
The court said it was dismissing the request on the grounds that "(the cross-enterprise union) conducted a survey when preparing its bargaining demands, and in light of that process, it is difficult to say it failed to go through procedures to confirm the intent of its affiliated members."
It added, "There is also room to view that a tentative agreement has already been reached and the collective bargaining activity has concluded."
Earlier, on the 15th, the "Samsung Electronics Employee Rights Restoration Legal Response Alliance" filed the injunction request with the court, taking issue with the decision-making process of the cross-enterprise union, which is centered on the semiconductor (DS) institutional sector, and demanding that the cross-enterprise union halt bargaining.
The injunction application stated that the cross-enterprise union violated its bylaws head-on by substituting bargaining demands with the results of a "Naver Form survey" that was conducted for a week last year without a general meeting resolution.
They argued that notices related to the general meeting must be given seven days in advance, but the notice in question was made just one day prior. They also pointed out that the leadership, citing a lack of time, coordinated 20 agenda items internally without gathering input from all members, and that not a single delegates' meeting had been convened in the three years since the union's establishment.