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Samsung Electronics has reached a tentative agreement with unions, granting semiconductor employees average bonuses of $338,000, avoiding an 18-day planned strike.

But the deal may still be a win for Samsung.

Samsung Electronics averted a 48,000-worker strike with a tentative union deal sharing AI chip profits worth $26.6 billion in 2026 bonuses.

Samsung workers have started voting on a major AI chip bonus pact offering up to 626 million won per employee in the semiconductor division.

Work negligence and canceled meetings have spread to divisions responsible for testing and packaging AI memory.

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The new deal, still being voted on, ensures enormous bonuses for memory chip workers but much smaller payouts for everyone else. Two Samsung unions take issue with that: one says…

The anger appears to have been sparked by claims that TSMC is considering reducing some employee payouts by as much as 15%, with staff arguing that the...

Non-chip employees tried to block the vote, but a South Korean court has dismissed the injunction.