sygreenblum Ok. I just don't understand the waiting till after the strike to negotiate. Isn't the strike your leverage in negotiations. You know, give us what we want or we will strike. Seems kind of backwards to me. Reply
cknobman Situations like this are why companies are in a rush to implement robotics and AI to replace us. Reply
Ghenrich cknobman said: Situations like this are why companies are in a rush to implement robotics and AI to replace us. Nah theyre trying to replace you regardless. They don’t care about you, you’re an expense on the budget sheet and they will get rid of you as soon as they determine it’s to their benefit. Oracle and Facebook employees didn’t strike. They still got fired en masse anyway. Samsung is making an obscene amount of money through this AI windwall. The huge extra profit has nothing do with executive’s policies or management, it’s due to market conditions. Employees wanting a cut of this windfall that’s making their bosses huge amounts of extra money is only natural. Samsung, like basically all corps, is just greedy and doesn’t want to share any of the huge piles of free extra cash they’re getting. Well now they can have fun losing billions because of their greed. Reply
S58_is_the_goat Hope they strike and lose billions, fcuk them greedy corps. Reply
ezst036 Admin said: Samsung starts winding down chip production That is the single best way to bring down memory RAM prices. Produce less of the chips! That always works every time. Hey I have an idea. How about they just make zero chips and that will REALLY make prices collapse! Since I want the lowest RAM prices that we have seen in years, I hope Hynix stops all production of RAM chips too. Yeah, that's it. We'll really get low prices then. No production anywhere. And when Micron stopped all of its production? That was super beneficial, it made prices go down, it made my day. Reply
SmokyBarnable sygreenblum said: Ok. I just don't understand the waiting till after the strike to negotiate. Isn't the strike your leverage in negotiations. You know, give us what we want or we will strike. Seems kind of backwards to me. Oftentimes corp leaders don’t learn the lesson until they feel some pain. Reply
onigami ezst036 said: Could you maybe just acknowledge that your wages are too garbage to upgrade your PC but you're too scared to do anything about it at your job? Because this projection has been going on for several posts related to this topic, and it's getting a little long on the tooth. Reply
American2021 Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea, primarily through the Samsung Electronics Labour Union (SELU), are the ones striking. They see their rivals at SK Hynix making much larger bonuses even as Samsung sees massive gains in memory chip profits (due to AI demand). That said, the average annual compensation for Samsung Electronics employees in South Korea was approximately 158 million South Korean won (KRW) in 2025, equivalent to roughly $107,300 USD. Samsung is a South Korean founded and run company, with significant American operations. I would like to see more companies like Samsung in the U.S. but with the stricter antitrust, higher regulatory costs, etc. it seems unlikely at this time. Perhaps the CHIPS Act might result in some more. Time will tell. Reply
ezst036 onigami said: Could you maybe just acknowledge that your wages are too garbage to upgrade your PC but you're too scared to do anything about it at your job? Because this projection has been going on for several posts related to this topic, and it's getting a little long on the tooth. It is a supply disruption. This is going to make RAM prices go up. It is very bizarre that people want to avoid that truth. Reply
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