The Donghaeng Labor Union, made up mainly of employees in Samsung Electronics’ finished-products business, plans to begin an open-ended protest near Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s residence in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, on September 18. The campaign will start with a launch ceremony and include rallies and one-person protests without a set end date. The union is demanding 1,000 Samsung Electronics treasury shares for each Device eXperience (DX) employee, a companywide performance-based common fund, and uniform application of the base pay increase rate, or Base-up, across divisions. It says DX employees were sidelined during the May wage negotiations and that the compensation gap with the Device Solutions (DS) division, which handles semiconductor operations, is excessive. The union also held a rally at Samsung Electronics’ Seocho office on August 21, blaming management failures for DX’s deteriorating profitability and urging dialogue. Some in the business community have criticized the share demand as unreasonable and questioned collective action after government-mediated wage negotiations produced an agreement between management and labor.