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Nearly 48,000 employees of Samsung Electronics are preparing to strike following unsuccessful payment discussions. The workers are ready to walk off the job after bonus payment negotiations ended without an agreement, reported Yonhap News on Wednesday. The strike could significantly...
Samsung Electronics chip employees are expected to receive average bonuses worth 509 million won ($338,000) this year, a company official said Thursday, under a tentative deal between management and labour unions to avert a strike.Samsung semiconductor employees are expected to receive around 509 million won under the new deal, a company official confirmed to AFP on Thursday.
The pay deal reached between Samsung Electronics and its union is being hailed as a win for the company which gained key concessions and averted a massive strike, as well as for its memory chip workers - some of whom will receive $416,000 bonuses. Samsung's shares surged 8.5% to a record high on Thursday after the planned 18-day strike by some 48,000 domestic workers was suspended. Samsung workers had been furious about the large gap in bonuses with their peers at smaller rival SK Hynix which had beaten Samsung to the punch in delivering advanced AI chip units to Nvidia, bolstering its fortunes.
Asian stock markets turned in a mixed Thursday with powerful rallies in Tokyo and Seoul on tech stre
🔎 Nvidia (NVDA): The chip giant reported record sales and income that beat analyst expectations, driven by demand for data-center computing and the rise of AI agents. Shares flitted between small gains and losses premarket.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after a former Samsung executive warned of a potential downturn in memory chip prices due to expanding production capacity in China.
Micron Technology stock was rising on Thursday, signaling to investors that the memory-chip trade is back on as rival Samsung Electronics agreed a last-minute deal to avert a strike. Micron climbed 1.5% to $743 ahead of the opening bell. Futures tracking the were flat as investors tried to make sense of Nvidia first-quarter earnings.
Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s largest corporation, has become one of the leading beneficiaries of the global artificial intelligence boom. But one segment of the country is unhappy with the result: Samsung workers.
Around Samsung Electronics' sprawling chip complex southwest of Seoul, workers and residents have met news of a last-gasp pay agreement to prevent a strike with both relief and concern. The tentative pay deal has sparked relief in South Korea, given Samsung's importance to the economy, while raising hopes among businesses in the neighbourhood around the complex. "If employees receive performance bonuses as a result of this general strike, I think restaurants near Samsung will benefit greatly, including through company dinners and group meals,” said Lee Se-hee, who owns a fine dining restaurant in Pyeongtaek, a city of around 650,000 people.
<body><p>STORY: Samsung Electronics' shares surged Thursday after it clinched a deal with its South Korean union to avert an 18-day strike by some 48,000 workers.</p><p>Shares in the world's largest memory chipmaker rocketed around 8% higher Thursday afternoon in Seoul.</p><p>The agreement sparked relief, as Samsung accounts for about a quarter of the country's exports...</p><p>and a strike could inflict significant damage on the economy and dent global chip supply.</p><p>However, terms in the deal, including hefty bonuses for some workers, sparked concern the firm could face soaring labor costs. </p><p>One union source says a memory chip worker with a base salary of about $53,000, for example, is expected to receive a bonus of around $416,000.</p><p>A document showed these bonuses would be paid in company stock for at least 10 years and conditional upon the chip division achieving targets.</p><p>Under the deal, Samsung is expected to set aside about 10.5% of operating profit to cover the special payouts. </p><p>However, one analyst said that the plan to pay bonuses in stock could limit the immediate financial burden on the company.</p></body>
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A group of Samsung Electronics shareholders on Thursday vowed legal action against a tentative deal between the South Korean chip giant and its largest labour union that averted a major strike.The Korea Shareholder Action Headquarters, a shareholders' group, on Thursday staged a rally protesting the deal, near the residence of Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong.
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A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Gregor Stuart Hunter The fight over pay is not done at Samsung Electronics.
Samsung Electronics' shares surged on Thursday after it clinched an 11th-hour deal with its South Korean union to avert a strike, although the terms which included bonuses of around $416,000 for some workers gave rise to some concern. A planned 18-day strike by some 48,000 union members has now been suspended, while the agreement, which was mediated by the government, is put to a vote between May 22 and May 27. The deal sparked relief across South Korea.
Shares surged in Tokyo, Seoul and other Asian markets Thursday, fuelled by hopes of a Middle East peace accord and by negotiations averting a planned strike at Samsung Electronics.Overnight gains of US shares, hopes for the end of the war in Iran and drops of oil prices were among factors that cheered Tokyo investors, said brokerage house Monex.
South Korean stocks rallied after Samsung Electronics Co. reached a tentative deal with its labor union, defusing the threat of an imminent strike at the world's largest memory chipmaker.
Shares rallied Thursday across Asia, tracking gains on Wall Street after pressure from the bond market eased and oil prices fell back. The advance was also powered by a stronger-than-expected quarterly report from chipmaker Nvidia, whose profit rocketed more than 200% higher in the February-April quarter from a year earlier, while revenue jumped 85%. Nvidia has been one of the biggest beneficiaries from the boom in artificial intelligence, thanks to powerful demand for its high-end AI chips.
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Samsung Electronics' shares rose as much as 6.5% in morning trade on Thursday after the tech giant and its South Korean union reached a tentative pay deal, potentially averting a strike that had threatened to hit the economy and undermine global chip supply chains. The union said the planned 18-day strike by nearly 48,000 members would be suspended while the tentative 11th-hour deal is put to a vote between May 22 and 27. Ryu Young-ho, a senior analyst at NH Investment & Securities, said investors were relieved that uncertainty surrounding the prospect of a strike had eased.
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