Samsung chip workers offered a $340,000 average bonus as union pushes toward $1m and an 18-day strike
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Samsung Electronics has offered chip workers an average bonus of $340,000, but the 45,000-strong National Samsung Electronics Union is pushing for closer to $1 million per employee and threatening an 18-day strike. Leaked transcripts reveal a stark internal disparity: memory-division workers are offered 607% bonuses (~$477,000) while logic-chip foundry employees receive as little as 50%. The union cites SK Hynix's $900K–$1M profit-sharing payouts as a benchmark and criticizes Samsung's one-time payout structure as leaving AI-cycle upside with shareholders. A walkout of this scale would be the largest in semiconductor history and could cost an estimated $20 billion in lost output, directly impacting HBM supply chains for Nvidia, AMD, and major hyperscalers. Government-mediated talks are ongoing ahead of the strike window.
