This is PROOF that Unions are BAD! IMAGINE paying a Couple Hundred bucks a Month JUST to Receive Hundreds of Thousands in Bonuses. DESPICABLE!
-Alpha Wolves!
union workers set to receive 400k bonuses, meanwhile workers in the US …
…the deal mainly benefits workers in the company’s memory chip division, which has seen profits soar due to the colossal investments globally in AI. Some of those workers are set to receive bonuses of around $416,000 this year. Workers in Samsung’s other chip units will receive less but still substantial bonuses, while employees in its consumer electronics divisions are set to receive very little by comparison.
Hardly the universal gain you’re implying. Further:
It also remains to be seen if a court will grant a Samsung union representing consumer electronics workers their request to block the vote. They were excluded from the vote after their union left the negotiating team due to disagreements. That could possibly lead to a new vote, though the deal appears to have far more backers than detractors.
My implication was that most US workers have no idea how good a union can be for them
I think more know than you may think, but they’re quite afraid of losing their jobs since the occurrences of such losses seem much more widely reported upon by the oligarch-owned popular media than the successes. It may technically be against the law, but the corporations know how to skirt those rules, and the politicians in their pockets let them. The average Joe doesn’t feel the system will have their back, and their own co-workers aren’t even reliable enough to risk striking and losing the ability to support one’s family.