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    A 45,000-person labor strike at Samsung's memory chip plants could throw a wrench into the AI boom
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    A 45,000-person labor strike at Samsung’s memory chip plants could throw a wrench into the AI boom

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    2. RevolutionaryFig9437 on

      >Samsung’s unions are requesting 15% of operating profit be allocated to a bonus pool, removal of the current cap that limits bonuses to 50% of base salary, and a 7% wage hike. Management countered with roughly 13% of operating profit, but only as a one-time payment for 2026, and didn’t commit to permanent structural changes.
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      Just 15%, NOT 50%, greedy management still won’t share it.

    3. virtual_adam on

      Are they also suggesting paying back their salaries to Samsung if the AI bubble pops? (A common outcome discussed often on this sub)

    6. Shiningc00 on

      >Samsung reportedly planned to push for a 60% price increase. Instead, as a negotiating tactic, it opened with a demand for 100%, a full doubling, and Apple accepted immediately.

      AI is largely to blame, but more competition is badly needed in this tri-poly landscape. The Chinese are catching up with their DDR5 RAM. Samsung’s days in raking in cash for selling RAM and NAND are numbered. Samsung badly needs R&D cash after continuing to fail and trail behind in their semiconductor game, so they would not rather pay their employees. Otherwise, they will fail to innovate against their Chinese competitors who have already caught up to Samsung.

    8. Limp_Classroom_2645 on

      Hey capitalists Build new plants and hire more people, that’s the only way 😏

    13. Due-Childhood3551 on

      love how the headline frames workers fighting for fair pay as a “wrench” in corporate profits

    15. CelebrationFit8548 on

      If ‘seeking fair pay and conditions’ is a wrench in the works then good for them.

    19. ImaginationToForm2 on

      If they get more money, higher prices, AI gets used, they get no job. Or they get no job, and AI gets used, and the get no job. In the end AI gets used and CEOs get more money.

    20. ultranoobian on

      They saw what was on the other side of the fence, SK Hynix with their 10% operating profit share.

      And just like that SK Hynix won even harder.

    22. bentNail28 on

      We need so much more of this in all sectors really, but especially in tech. We don’t have to accept the chopping block as the only alternative when it’s the workers who make it possible for these companies to automate their jobs. Definitely time for a new labor movement to counteract modern robber barons.