Samsung faces chip worker revolt – Fudzilla.com
…Unions are threatening a strike unless the chipmaker improves wages and bonuses. Two Samsung unions want the company to pay workers 15 per cent of each division’s operating profit. They want…
…Unions are threatening a strike unless the chipmaker improves wages and bonuses. Two Samsung unions want the company to pay workers 15 per cent of each division’s operating profit. They want…
…As reported by Reuters, output for Samsung’s foundry and memory chips “dropped 58 percent and 18 percent, respectively, during the overnight shift on Thursday as unionized workers attended a protest demanding…
South Korean chip giant Samsung Electronics has reached an agreement with its labour union, mere hours before workers were due to begin an 18-day strike. The planned action was due to…
Samsung management appears intractable, unwilling to yield to the bonus-related demands of its unionized workers, setting the stage for a high-stakes showdown next month. As the world's largest memory…
…Even so, Samsung workers appear to have won the latest round by successfully disrupting nearly a fifth of the output at the highly mechanized Samsung memory fabs as well as nearly three…
…The Financial Times estimates memory chip workers will receive a bonus roughly equivalent to $400,400. This profit sharing deal is similar to the one SK Hynix struck with its own workers…
As Samsung's unionized workers grow ever bolder, egged on by the rapidly fattening purse of its memory business , which has spurred calls for pay/bonus hikes from other divisions as well…
…Samsung's union workers are currently demanding 15 percent of the company's annual operating profit, which amounts to around $30 billion, in bonuses. Otherwise, these union workers are threatening an 18…
…50,000 semiconductor workers could reduce global DRAM supply by roughly 3% to 4% and NAND output by 2% to 3%. While those figures may appear moderate, the memory market remains sensitive…
…The surge in memory prices due to high demand from AI chip companies has transformed the industry, with workers at companies such as SK hynix receiving hefty bonuses and those at Samsung…