Samsung's highly lucrative bonus deal with its semiconductor employees is now tearing the conglomerate apart along the proverbial seams, as the ensuing astronomical pay gap is now spurring angst among ex-semiconductor employees. To demonstrate their grievances, Samsung Device Experience (DX) employees, which include those from its Mobile, Display, and Digital Appliance businesses, chose a novel and fairly dramatic method today, replete with overtones of grief and condemnation. Some Samsung workers wore black to work today, symbolizing 'death, sorrow, and mourning' As per the reports coming out of South Korea, Samsung DX workers went to work today while dressed in black […]

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Samsung's semiconductor workers might have won their bonus-related battle but are now apparently headed towards losing the proverbial war, especially as Samsung doubles down on automation to extricate itself from the union's leverage. Samsung's Data Sharing Eco Platform (DSEP) unlocks a viable pathway towards fully unmanned semiconductor fabs by 2030 Samsung has now established a data-sharing protocol, dubbed the Data Sharing Eco Platform (DSEP), where the idea is to share real-time semiconductor process data with select partners, while concurrently feeding it into an AI-based factory operating system to unlock complete automation by the end of the decade. According to the […]

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Developers at Rockstar, who are working on what'll likely be the biggest video game release in history so far with GTA 6, have officially unionized to form the Rockstar Game Workers Union (RGWU) under the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB). The formation and public launch of the union comes after it was delayed by Rockstar and Take-Two management firing 34 workers (31 in the UK, three in Canada) shortly after the union had initially reached the 10% membership threshold needed to be formed, which the IWGB alleges was a "blatant and ruthless act of union busting." Announced via […]

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Last year, Samsung employees went on a strike for the first time in five decades. Now, these unionized workers are back at it, threatening a much longer, 18-day protest-led work hiatus. At the heart of this issue lies a perception mismatch, where Samsung is seen ripping off its workers to earn ginormous profits. The question remains: who will blink first? Samsung is seen as short-handing its workers, and those employees are now pushing back According to the Korea Herald, Samsung's union workers are currently demanding 15 percent of the company's annual operating profit, which amounts to around $30 billion, in […]

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