Samsung union starts 3-day strike, says chip production affected

SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics' biggest trade union said on Monday that semiconductor production had been disrupted by a strike as thousands of its members walked out in a call for bigger pay increases and "fair" bonus standards.

Leaders of the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) said production lines using 8-inch wafers had "problems" in the morning as 6,540 members of the union joined the first day of a three-day strike. The NSEU said it has 30,000 members, or 24% of the company's 124,000 workforce in the country.