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[Herald Economy = Yang Dae-geun] Lee Jun-seok, leader of the Reform New Party, described the deal that postponed a full strike by Samsung Electronics\u2019 union as \u201ca negotiation in which no one achieved an outright victory and no one suffered an outright defeat.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the 21st, Lee wrote on Facebook: \u201cLast night, South Korea stopped two clocks at once \u2014 one measuring the countdown to a general strike and the other the black hole that was siphoning STEM talent into medical schools.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee identified the payment structure as the most notable element of the agreement. Under the labor-management deal, the special management performance bonus will be paid entirely in after\u2011tax company shares: one-third may be sold immediately, one-third will be locked up for one year, and the final third will be locked up for two years. \u201cThis isn\u2019t about tying up money; it\u2019s an investment in the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe agreement made 50,000 engineers shareholders and turned them into actors who can help lift the stock price,\u201d Lee said. \u201cFrom the company\u2019s perspective, because cash won\u2019t be paid out immediately, it can preserve capacity for R&D and capital investment.\u201d He emphasized that the long-standing divide between labor and capital has intersected at the midpoint of company stock.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cOver the past decade-plus, the country\u2019s sharpest talent moved into white coats not out of conviction but because of arithmetic: the certainty of the rewards offered by the white coat was clearer than in any other profession. This time, that certainty is being created by white cleanroom suits. The medical-school \u2018black hole\u2019 that policies to expand or reduce medical school quotas failed to resolve is now being addressed by market forces.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAn engineer who clocked into a cleanroom today can tell their child, \u2018Dad has a proud profession,\u2019\u201d Lee said. \u201cThat sentence is the true accounting of this agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee said the city that will feel this change most deeply is Dongtan. He noted that the ten\u2011year period guaranteed by the agreement coincides precisely with the decade when the Yongin semiconductor mega-cluster comes online. By any measure, Dongtan 2 New Town will become the primary residential hub for core talent from Samsung\u2019s Hwaseong and Pyeongtaek campuses and Namsa cluster, as well as SK Hynix\u2019s Yongin cluster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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