Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix’s $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/samsung-chip-workers-reject-usd340-000-one-time-bonus-demand-annual-payouts-like-sk-hynixs-usd900-000-workers-want-share-of-ai-windfall-impending-18-day-strike-could-cost-samsung-up-to-usd11-7-billion
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Is Ai actually making any real money yet?
“How dare the poors demand better living conditions!”
– The Rich.
So if a company suffers a loss in the future do employees pay back the money? Should go both ways.
I mean, it makes sense. When the company reports a nearly 50 fold increase in revenue for the quarter I can see why the employees might want some of that. They are facing some increasing head winds, but they are also well positioned to make a lot of money off this hardware rush…
https://invezz.com/news/2026/04/30/why-samsung-stock-is-falling-after-its-best-quarter-in-history/
So in other words they can pay up to 13000 employees the 900k$ one time and I will be cheaper than the strike…
Then you’ve got US companies like Microsoft/Amazon who are making record profits and reducing benefits for employs and making them fight for their lives
I don’t know I’m generally one to side with the workers but this seems like blatant extortion.
How can you retroactively demand more than the contract you’ve agreed to? It’s not your right and it just seems like you’re dealing in bad faith
Eat the chaebols
Back to work you plebs. I need cheaper RAM and this isn’t helping
Hey, America, this is what protesting looks like. These guys are fighting harder for a raise than y’all are fighting to save your country.
solidarity with Samsung’s workers
The reason they are rejecting the $340,000 is that they need $1.2 million to buy a house in Seoul or the suburban metropolitan area and that $1.2 million asset will become $2 million within a just few years.