Greater than 6,500 employees at Samsung Electronics joined the corporate’s second strike in a month on Monday, compounding bother for the South Korean large because it tries to battle weak point in its superior reminiscence chip enterprise.The Nationwide Samsung Electronics Union, which has greater than 30,000 members — 1 / 4 of the corporate’s workforce — went on strike after taking collective annual go away in June. It’s the union’s first walkout in Samsung’s 55-year historical past. The union is demanding that Samsung respect labour actions, enhance performance-based bonuses and enhance vacation allowances. The three-day strike comes as Samsung is struggling to ease concern about its weakening technological competitiveness, particularly in excessive bandwidth reminiscence chips used for coaching synthetic intelligence fashions.