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        "id": 1758868,
        "msgid": "samsung-electronics-employees-begin-voting-on-pay-deal-1779537350",
        "date": "2026-05-22 23:35:29",
        "title": "Samsung Electronics employees begin voting on pay deal",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Business",
        "summary": "Samsung Electronics employees began voting on Friday 22 May to decide on a provisional 2026 pay deal amid tensions over a sharp gap in performance bonuses between divisions. The agreement includes a DS division-specific bonus fund, a 6.2% average wage rise, a housing loan programme, and a 40\/60 bonus distribution between company-wide and division-based components; DX division workers are opposing the deal and a DX-focused union plans to hold its own vote after the largest union said it would exclude DX members from the official vote.",
        "content": "<p>Seoul (ANTARA) - Samsung Electronics employees began voting on Friday\n(22 May) to decide on the matter of the provisional pay agreement for\n2026, amid rising tensions triggered by a sharp gap in performance\nbonuses among the company\u2019s business divisions, according to Yonhap News\nAgency. About 89,000 union members are eligible to cast their votes in\ndeciding the provisional pay deal, with voting scheduled to continue\nuntil 27 May at 10:00 a.m. local time. The pay deal will be approved if\na majority of eligible union members vote in the process and more than\nhalf of them vote in favour. Under the provisional agreement reached on\nWednesday (20 May), management and the Samsung Electronics union agreed\nto introduce a special bonus fund for the Device Solution (DS)\nsemiconductor division, funded at 10.5 percent of business performance,\nraising average wages by 6.2 percent, and establishing a housing loan\nprogramme. Of the total fund, 40 percent will be distributed as a bonus\nto all divisions, while the remaining 60 percent will be allocated based\non the performance of each business unit. Opposition to the deal has\nbeen increasing among employees in the Device Experience (DX) division,\nwhich oversees smartphones, home appliances and televisions, as weaker\nearnings are expected to leave them receiving a much smaller bonus than\nworkers in the semiconductor division. DX-focused union membership has\nreportedly jumped from around 2,600 to more than 12,000 in a day after\nworkers joined the union ahead of the voting day. Samsung Electronics\u2019\nlargest union said that members of the DX-focused union would be\nexcluded from the formal vote, given that the union had withdrawn from\nthe joint negotiating group before the provisional agreement was\nreached. However, the DX-focused union plans to hold its own vote among\nits members.<\/p>",
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