Employees at a Micron Know-how plant in Taiwan plan to strike on Thursday as they purpose to strain the US chip agency into proposing a “concrete profit-sharing plan”, a labour union representing the workers mentioned.
Big world urge for food for chips utilized in AI information centres has despatched revenues hovering for corporations that design, produce and assemble them however as their earnings skyrocket, employees are demanding an even bigger minimize of earnings.
Monday’s announcement got here as Micron held talks over remuneration with two unions representing 12,000 of the 15,000 employees at its Taoyuan and Taichung crops.
The union representing lots of of employees in Taoyuan mentioned Thursday’s strike would coincide with mediation talks with the corporate. It didn’t specify how lengthy the strike may final.
“The strike goals to strengthen the union’s place in mediation and urge Micron to place ahead a concrete profit-sharing plan,” the union mentioned in an announcement.
“We name on all Micron Taiwan Union members to face collectively, battle collectively, and negotiate collectively,” the union mentioned.
“By way of our actions, we are going to make our dissatisfaction with the present system heard and exhibit our dedication to determine a good profit-sharing system.”
Micron mentioned it might challenge an announcement in response to the strike motion later.
The employees have the authorized proper to strike and stage picket traces after voting earlier this month in favour of motion, the union mentioned beforehand.
The unions are searching for a one-off bonus of 83 months’ wage in addition to a everlasting system that allocates 15 p.c of the corporate’s working earnings to employee bonuses, distributed quarterly slightly than yearly.
Micron, which makes round 50-60 p.c of its chips in Taiwan, mentioned final month it might give the equal of as much as 68 months of pay to workers however the one-off fee was rejected by employees.
