Nearly 45,00
    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      353·
      4 months ago

      Good! Fight for your rights! Fuck AI!

      The workers certainly don’t agree with “Fuck AI!” It’s the AI profits they want a share of and wouldn’t mind if AI didn’t collapse once they get an agreement.

    • mrnngglry@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      It’ll either hurt Samsung or employees will get their fair share. I’m fine with either outcome. But also, fuck AI.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    69·
    4 months ago

    Good for them. If we’re going to live through all the stupid of an AI bubble, it’s good to see some of the insane profits making their way to the people who actually build the part and not just management and shareholders.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    4 months ago

    People in general seem to have a hard time grasping the notion of just how much power we all have collectively. It is why so much time and marketing goes into promoting the idea of “the individual” being the most important thing in my opinion. The more people only consider themselves the less power they have to get what they want and need.

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Divide and conquer. I think that is the real reason the US has supported independence movements that break up countries so much. It is much easier to control 1 chunk out of 5 than all 5 together.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    That’s why it’ll be a shock to the system when on May 21, nearly 45,000 of Samsung’s unionized workers plan to walk off the job for 18 days. If that happens, it will be the largest work stoppage in the history of the semiconductor industry, at the single most important chokepoint in the AI supply chain.

    Suck it, AI companies. I use an agent to help me code projects and it’s genuinely useful. But these companies are leaches and they deserve a good kick in the balls. See price hikes due to shortages because of their build-outs. I’m very fortunate that I am not in need of any hardware (at the moment! hope nothing fails!), but I’m still very mad about how it’s affecting people.

    …

    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. Based on 2026 profit forecasts, that translates to average payouts of $460,000-$477,000 per worker this year across SK Hynix’s 35,000 staff, with projections approaching $900,000 per person next year. This is nothing new for SK Hynix: it already paid profit-sharing bonuses averaging about $95,000 per employee this past February.

    Holy shit. The next time someone tries to tell you unions are bad, point them to this.

    Side note: I’m literally trying to figure out and schedule time off before it expires that was won for me by my union. I didn’t know about it and it’s per-pay period so I got an automated email telling me to use it or lose it. What a great problem to have.