Samsung says sorry as union-busting chairman and VP head off for 18 months in the chokey

The chairman and a vice president of Samsung electronics are starting 18 months' prison sentences after being found guilty of illegal union busting yesterday at the Seoul Central District Court. Chairman Lee Sang-hoon and executive vice president Kang Kyung-hoon were in charge of a wide ranging scheme to stop staff joining …

[John Jennings]

Different perspective in Seol, compared to California on how management can behave.

[Pascal Monett]

Not really. Apparently Google thinks exactly the same way.

It's just that public opinion is starting to realize it actually has an impact.

[Doctor Syntax]

If the OP is comparing Sammy's statement with the industry standard which says essentially "We were right and the court got it wrong." then he's spot on.

[Groove-Cat]

Tech Exec Clink.

best the US start construction of one soon. seems like the place will fill up pretty quick.

oh and make sure that the whole complex is surrounded by a Faraday cage.... :D

[phuzz]

Re: Tech Exec Clink.

If you're building a prison in the US then the first thing you need is a business plan, and a tame politician who knows how to stay bought.

Then you can pretty much sit back and wait for the money to roll in (whilst occasionally lobbying for harsher sentences to keep your 'customers' returning).

[Kibble 2]

Re: Tech Exec Clink.

I tend to agree with you, Phuzz. Money talks loudly in a capitalist society. But I'm now wondering: after the fall of the USSR, who runs the gulags in Russia today?

[Chris G]

Re: Tech Exec Clink.

@Kibble 2 The gulags have pretty much all gone.

There are still prisons though.

A friend of mine lives close to where one of the old gulags were in Siberia, everything was demolished and ploughed in during the '90s.

[Doctor Syntax]

Re: Tech Exec Clink.

"harsher sentences to keep your 'customers' returning"

Don't you mean to stop them leaving?

[Ian Joyner]

Another reason…

why Samsung is one of my least favourite companies along with IBM and Microsoft, companies that want to take over everything. But at least I can name very relevant researchers with IBM and Microsoft – Samsung has no one. It obviously likes its employees to be anonymous – that way they contribute nothing to the scientific world, only to Samsung's profits.

[dave 81]

Re: Another reason…

Weirdly despite all thier fsckup's, I still like like IBM. Even after working a 2 week service contract for them.

[Sureo]

Re: Another reason…

I like(d) IBM too but that was 40 years ago.

[Ian Joyner]

Re: Another reason…

IBM was the originator of dirty tricks. Thomas J Watson senior learned the tactics of Patterson of NCR. Patterson would denigrate all competitor's cash registers spearing FUD. Patterson was gaoled, Watson got off, but then learned how to apply dirty tricks more stealthily.

All this can be read about in Thomas DeLamarter's "Big Blue: IBM's Use and Abuse of Power".

IBM were truly a nasty company.