Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 bonus as SK Hynix's $900,000 AI payouts fuel strike threat
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What just happened? Samsung's attempt to head off a potentially disastrous strike by offering chip workers an enormous one-time bonus appears to have fallen flat. The National Samsung Electronics Union is reportedly close to accepting a 13% allocation of the semiconductor division's operating profit, worth around $340,000 per employee, but only if the payout becomes an annual guarantee rather than a one-off sweetener.
It's the latest escalation in a dispute that began with Samsung workers demanding a direct share of the money generated by the AI memory boom.
As reported last month, around 30,000 employees rallied at the company's Pyeongtaek campus, threatening an 18-day strike from May 21 to June 7 if management failed to meet their demands.
The union originally called for 15% of operating profit, the removal of Samsung's 50%...
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