Workers astatine Samsung’s Device Solutions (the company’s semiconductor arm) were threatening to onslaught backmost successful May, but their national and the institution signed a woody that opened the gates to monolithic show bonuses. That is not the extremity of the story, though, arsenic different national that represents different subdivision is present unhappy with the bonus disparity.
Samsung’s Device Experience (DX) subdivision builds smartphones, TVs and location appliances. Their national is readying to clasp a rally adjacent the Samsung Electronics Suwon works connected July 16.
The crushed is elemental – workers successful the non-chip divisions are expected to person bonuses of KRW 6 million. Meanwhile, their peers astatine the DS part are looking astatine bonuses that are a 100 times bigger – KRW 600 million.
As an aboriginal signifier of protest, DX workers wore achromatic to enactment past month. Now, 2-3,000 of them (from a full of 28,000 successful the union) are expected to rally successful beforehand of the Suwon works adjacent week.
“We program to clasp a rally during this year's wage talks to protestation the unfair sidelining of the DX division,” said 1 typical (machine translation).
Samsung DX employees showing up to enactment successful achromatic apparel arsenic a signifier of protest
Samsung Electronics is expected to denote a monolithic 18x summation successful operating nett for Q2. According to Reuters, the 2nd 4th of this twelvemonth (April-June) apt saw Samsung rake successful KRW 86 trillion successful operating nett ($56.4 billion), up from KRW 4.7 trillion successful Q2 2025.
This maturation was mostly driven by DRAM, HBM and NAND chips. And per its woody with its employees, Samsung volition administer 10.5% of the DS operating profits arsenic show bonuses for employees wrong the semiconductor division. We volition get much details erstwhile the Q2 study comes out.
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