{"id":1008466,"date":"2026-05-18T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008466"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:02:06","slug":"how-ai-boom-sparked-a-looming-workers-strike-and-deep-divisions-at-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/18\/how-ai-boom-sparked-a-looming-workers-strike-and-deep-divisions-at-samsung\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI boom sparked a looming workers\u2019 strike and deep divisions at Samsung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A looming 18-day strike at South Korean chip giant Samsung that has triggered worries within the government, rattled foreign investors and threatened global supply chains rests on one crucial question: who should share in the spoils of the AI boom? <\/p>\n<p>More than 45,000 workers are threatening to stage the largest strike in the conglomerate&#8217;s history from May 21, reducing production of memory chips that are crucial components in AI data centres, smartphones and laptops, as Samsung and its union struggle to find a compromise over bonus payouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A looming 18-day strike at South Korean chip giant Samsung that has triggered worries within the government, rattled foreign investors and threatened global supply chains rests on one crucial question: who should share in the spoils of the AI boom? More than 45,000 workers are threatening to stage the largest strike in the conglomerate&#8217;s history from May 21, reducing production of memory chips that are crucial components in AI data centres, smartphones and laptops, as Samsung and its union struggle to find a compromise over bonus payouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008474,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008466\/revisions\/1008474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}