A union survey found that about half of the members in the Device Solutions (DS) institutional sector in charge of Samsung Electronics' semiconductor business are highly willing to change jobs within the next two years. In the foundry (semiconductor contract manufacturing) division, 81.5% of respondents said their intention to change jobs was "high" or "very high."
The Samsung Group supra-enterprise labor union's Samsung Electronics chapter, the largest union at Samsung Electronics, held the first DS institutional sector policy committee meeting on the 16th and released the results of a survey on job-change intentions by business division. The union surveyed 8,297 DS institutional sector members from on the 17th to the 30th of last month on whether they intended to change jobs within the next two years, and 49.5% of all respondents said their intention to change jobs was high or very high.
By business division, the foundry division had the highest job-change intention at 81.5%. Among the 1,462 respondents in the foundry division, 62% answered "very high" and 19% answered "high." In the System LSI division, 75.4% of the 751 respondents said their intention to change jobs was high. The semiconductor research center was 60.6%, the global manufacturing & infrastructure division was 34.3%, the test and system package (TSP) division was 33.7%, the memory division was 32.7%, and the artificial intelligence (AI) center was 31.6%.
The union also launched the DS institutional sector policy committee that day. The policy committee is an organization in which union members from each business division participate directly to reflect on-site opinions in the wage and collective bargaining demands. In addition to the executive leadership, it consists of 6 members from the memory division, 6 from the foundry division, 5 from the System LSI division, and 8 from common organizations. Until the start of negotiations in early December, the plan is to prepare demands centered on the policy committee that reflect voices from the field.
At the first meeting, they discussed ◇ policy committee operating rules ◇ job-change intention survey results ◇ the 2027 wage and collective bargaining schedule ◇ trends in the government and National Assembly's megaproject promotion and response policy ◇ measures for the companywide labor-management council election.
The policy committee plans to hold regular monthly meetings and pursue standing meetings to discuss management conditions and business structure with management. The union also decided to prepare a "megaproject package demand" covering settlement conditions, working conditions, and industrial safety, and reflect it separately in the 2027 wage and collective bargaining demands.
Choi Seung-ho, Chairperson of the supra-enterprise union, said, "The results of the job-change intention survey conducted directly by the union show the sense of crisis on the ground as it is," and added, "The company should take this seriously and promptly prepare effective measures to prevent the outflow of talent."