Samsung Worker's unions negotiated a tiny profit sharing plan into the contracts of the people at the front lines of memory assembly and build. About 5% of total profit, split over every worker.

Due to the fuckery of memory prices right now, workers on a £40k salary are now staring down the barrel of a £310k annual bonus.

Unionize.

(Those numbers in US Dollars: $53,400 salary gets $416,000 bonus)

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