Samsung consumer-device workers to rally as chip boom widens pay divide

A Samsung Electronics union representing mainly workers in the company’s consumer-device business is set to rally in Seoul on Friday afternoon over a widening compensation gap with its semiconductor division, as the AI-driven memory boom delivers record chip profits while raising costs for smartphones, TVs and appliances. The Donghaeng union, whose membership is concentrated in Samsung’s Device eXperience, or DX, division, plans to hold the rally at 3 p.m. near the company’s Seocho offices in so