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

https://fortune.com/2026/05/17/labor-strike-samsung-ai-hbm-chips-dividend-revolution-memory/

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kibiz0r@midwest.social · 12 pts · 80d

Oh no, they might have to run a competitive business instead of relying on artificial scarcity, price-fixing, and wage suppression. How terrible!

lproven@social.vivaldi.net · 7 pts · 81d (2 replies)

@chobeat

Good?

chobeat@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 81d

Good, even though the union strategy of getting a slice of the cake while enabling processes that will screw over workers everywhere else can be debated.

Feyter@programming.dev · 1 pts · 80d

IDK... "average payouts of $460,000-$477,000 per worker this year" no way that the average worker will get half a million dollar a year. So I don't really understand what this strikes are aiming for.

utopiah@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 80d

Ugh... just replace them with robots! So easy I should be World CEO. /$ (obviously)