Samsung workers go on strike
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🗓️ 7 June 2024
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From the BBC World Service: Workers belonging to the largest union at tech giant Samsung have gone on strike for the first time ever over a pay dispute. Then, McDonald’s no longer has the exclusive right to market chicken Big Mac. Also, and nearly 2 million more teenagers will be eligible to vote in EU elections, and a woman who says she inspired “Baby Reindeer” is suing Netflix for defamation and damages.
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| 0:30.0 | Samsung workers are on strike. Well, kind of. |
| 0:34.7 | Good morning. Thanks for tuning in to the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Leanna Byrne. |
| 0:40.1 | Yet this one needs a bit of explaining. Workers belonging to the largest union of the tech giant Samsung |
| 0:46.0 | have gone on strike over a pay dispute and it's a big deal because it's the first |
| 0:49.7 | time workers there downed tools ever. But it might not be a walk-out in the way or you or I |
| 0:55.7 | would know the BBC's Nick Marsh has the details. We are seeing a dispute over pay |
| 1:00.3 | and bonuses the main union wants bigger pay rises it wants bonuses to be paid, it wants an extra day of annual leave. |
| 1:07.5 | They haven't been able to come to an agreement with the bosses at Samsung Electronics, so they have told their members 28,000 of them to not quite |
| 1:19.2 | go on strike as me and you might understand it but actually to take a day of paid leave today |
| 1:25.6 | Today is a Friday after a national holiday so it's a day when a lot of people would take leave anyway |
| 1:30.9 | But the idea is to sort of disrupt operations as much as they can while not fully |
| 1:36.7 | going on strike. |
| 1:38.3 | Nick Marsh there. Okay, have you seen baby reindeer? It's that British comedy drama released in April that |
| 1:43.9 | claimed to be a true story and it's a global hit for Netflix. Now the woman who |
| 1:48.6 | says she's the inspiration for an abusive character portrayed in the film is suing the streaming giant for |
| 1:54.3 | defamation and 170 million dollars in damages. |
| 1:58.1 | Netflix says it intends to vigorously defend itself. |
| 2:01.3 | The BBC's Will Vernon reports. |
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