Samsung Electronics board chairman, Lee Sang-hoon has been sentenced to one and a half years jail, after the same court last week gave a 16-month jail term to its Vice-President, Kang Kyung-hoon.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Lee was sentenced to jail on Tuesday by Seoul Central District Court, a South Korean court for sabotaging legitimate union activities.
He was charged alongside 25 other defendants with sabotaging union activities by subcontracted workers at Samsung Electronics’ repair unit, Samsung Electronics Service.
When union activities took place at Samsung Electronics Service in 2013, Samsung Group’s now-defunct elite strategy office developed and implemented strategies to hinder the union’s operation, the court ruled.
Samsung executives and employees were, to different degrees, involved in finding out sensitive information about union members to convince them to leave the union, inducing the closure of subcontracting firms with active unions and delaying negotiations between labour and management.
The court ruling follows last week’s ruling by the same court that gave a 16-month jail term to Samsung Electronics Vice-President Kang Kyung-hoon on charges of union-busting activities at a different Samsung affiliate.
Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics has declined to comment on the development.
