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LS Cable & System Faces First Strike Threat in 37 Years

Logo of LS Cable & System. As the proliferation of artificial intelligence data centers causes a surge in demand for power infrastructure, the electrical and power industry has entered a period of unprecedented boom, but with consecutive labor-management conflicts over expanding employee compensation, strike movements are appearing to spread across the entire industry. According to the industry on Sept. 15, the LS Cable & System labor union unde…
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The LS Cable & System labor union held a "Strike Launch Ceremony for Victory in the 2026 Wage and Collective Bargaining Struggle" in front of the main gate of the Gumi plant in North Gyeongsang Province on the 16th and commenced industrial action. This marks a crack in the 37-year tradition of no disputes maintained since the union's establishment in 1989, and appears to be intensifying labor-management conflict. Approximately 500 union members…

“The enterprise did not deal with unfair labor practices,” and the “enterprise did not deal with unfair labor practices,” LS Cable & System faced the first strike crisis in 37 years after the establishment of the trade union due to overlapping compensation complaints due to overlapping compensation complaints against the predecessor's wage cuts and executives. Labor distrust has deepened due to the recent controversy over unfair labor practices,…

[Digital Daily, Reporter Kim Yu-jin] LS Cable & System is on the brink of strike for the first time in 37 years since the establishment of the trade union. Demand for power infrastructure surged due to the spread of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, and the electricity and power industry experienced a boom, but labor conflicts surrounding the expansion of employee compensation followed one after another, and the strike movement spread t…

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ddaily.co.kr broke the news on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
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