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conflict 2026-05-13
41,000 Samsung Workers Are About to Strike Over a Bonus Gap That SK Hynix Created
South Korea's semiconductor giant lost $66 billion in market value in hours before Seoul intervened -- and the actual dispute is not about wages, it is about who owns the upside of a chip boom.
conflict 2026-05-02
The Workers Who Could Break the AI Boom
Samsung's largest-ever labor action threatens to disrupt HBM memory production at the exact moment AI chip demand has outpaced every forecast.
power 2026-04-24
Samsung's Workers Want Their Cut of the AI Boom
Thirty thousand chip workers are threatening an 18-day strike over profit-sharing. Samsung's Q1 operating profit rose 755%. The math is not complicated. The power dynamic is.
conflict 2026-04-14
Samsung's Record Quarter Is Funding Its Own Undoing
The union is demanding $30 billion in bonuses. The company says that wipes out its R&D budget. An 18-day strike in May could hand Micron and China the memory market.