Samsung union suspends strike after reaching tentative deal on bonuses - Engadget
Samsung union suspends strike after reaching tentative deal on bonuses The strike would have impacted Samsung's memory chip production. …
Samsung union suspends strike after reaching tentative deal on bonuses The strike would have impacted Samsung's memory chip production. …
… Last September, SK Hynix settled with its own union to allocate 10% of annual operating profit directly to employees as performance bonuses for the next decade, while removing caps on bonuses. …
… The workers stand to earn massive bonuses worth millions of dollars if Samsung agrees to the union's demands, but the company called the union's terms "unacceptable." It said in a statement that the reason an agreement couldn't be reached was because "accepting the labor union's excessive demands … …
TSMC employees are openly discussing forming a union and staging a strike after rumors spread that the company plans to cut performance bonuses by approximately 15%, according to a DigiTimes report published today. …
… In that time, Samsung and the workers union hammered out a new agreement. The workers voted and accepted the deal with a big margin – 74% voted in favor. Now some workers in Samsung’s memory division will receive bonuses as high as $416,000 this year. …
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… Samsung's unionized workers face a double-whammy: a court has issued a partial injunction against their planned strike as the government threatens to invoke a rare legal instrument As we've been noting ad nauseum over the past few days, Samsung's union workers are currently demanding 15 percent of … …
… The union had wanted a larger share of the bonuses to be spread equally among staff. According to Reuters, a memory chip worker on a base salary of around $50,000 could now be eligible for a total bonus of $416,000. It appears at least some employees have already found ways to spend those bonuses. …
… The union understandably rejects this reasoning, with its chairman, Choi Seung-ho, counterstating that a worker in the memory division receiving 500 million won in bonuses while a foundry colleague takes home 80 million won creates a retention crisis the company cannot afford. …
… Market analysts project Samsung's 2026 operating profit at roughly KRW 300 trillion, which would translate to per-employee bonuses approaching KRW 600 million $408,000 in the semiconductor division under the union's formula. …