A union representing Samsung Electronics' consumer electronics workers has asked a South Korean court to block a vote on a newly negotiated wage agreement, arguing that the deal unfairly favors employees in the company's highly profitable semiconductor business.

An internal civil war has erupted at Samsung Electronics over how to distribute the massive financial spoils of the artificial intelligence boom, with a major union filing a lawsuit to completely halt a critical vote on a new corporate pay package.

Some 89,000 unionised Samsung Electronics' (005930.KS), opens new tab workers in South Korea will begin voting ​on Friday on a pay deal that has been ‌hailed as a win for the company as well as its memory chip workers.

While a dramatic, 11th-hour pay agreement between Samsung Electronics and its labor union has averted a crippling nationwide strike, the historic deal has exposed deep internal rifts and feelings of unfairness across the company’s massive workforce.

A labor union at South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it would suspend a planned general strike and hold a vote on a tentative wage agreement.

Wage negotiations between Samsung Electronics and its largest labor union collapsed on Wednesday, just one day before a planned large-scale strike at the world’s biggest memory chipmaker that could disrupt global semiconductor supply chains.

Samsung Electronics and its labor union will resume government-led mediation talks on Monday, just three days before a major planned strike, company and union officials said on Saturday.

Samsung Electronics' (005930.KS), opens new tab South Korean labour union said on Friday ​the tech company had proposed resuming talks without ‌conditions, days after government-mediated negotiations over pay and bonus schemes collapsed.

Samsung Electronics has urged its labour union to resume pay negotiations after earlier government-mediated talks collapsed, as the risk of a strike continues to build.