@violent_grimes@kolektiva.social
Post #3394111
2026-06-23 00:04 UTC
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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to 2026-06-23 07:51
@violent_grimes@kolektiva.social @passenger@kolektiva.social everybody got a raise and bonuses for the coming years: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116798308589246912
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@passenger@kolektiva.social 2026-06-23 08:38
@violent_grimes@kolektiva.social @gabrielesvelto@mas.to Remember that Samsung is a bizarrely huge conglomerate, which includes all sorts of businesses under its umbrella. Do you need a boat repaired? Do you want to hire an advertising team? Samsung are one of the world's largest in both of those industries. They own a bank, they do insurance, they do construction, they do all sorts of stuff. As such, if you count up all of Samsung's workers you end up with bank tellers and construction site workers and marketing people, all of whom are still workers and deserve the whole of the value they produce, but who are unlikely to be unionised together with the electronics workers who make up the core of the company. As a union organiser, I can understand that this sort of thing is hard-mode for us: people want to unionise along with their fellow workers, which makes sense, but it's very difficult to extend that union to other parts of a conglomerate without risking the union getting captured by management. So, I read the news item as "all the workers in electronics got that huge payday, which is great, but not the people in the shipyards and so forth."