Samsung Heavy workers’ to vote on strike

[THE INVESTOR] Samsung Heavy Industries workers are to vote on whether to stage strike next week, feeding concerns for the country’s ailing shipbuilding industry.

Samsung Heavy’s labor group said on June 21 that it will inform the authorities of labor dispute at the company on June 22, and put the strike to the vote next week.

Under local regulations, a labor group must first formally declare that industrial dispute has occurred before any action can be put to the vote.

Unlike Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, Samsung Heavy does not have a union. However, an employees’ negotiation group serves in place of a union.

Samsung Heavy’s labor body claims that the revival measures announced on June 15 would be ruinous, and that the government and the company must take steps that protect jobs.

By Choi He-suk (cheesuk@heraldcorp.com)