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Jojothewhale t1_ir19vsf wrote

If they do this and let the factory unionize, I would be more than happy to throw them some tax breaks to help offset some of the cost.

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Lt_Scott_Summer t1_ir1dmxk wrote

Micron is one of the highest paying companies in Idaho. They don't need to unionize.

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NEED_HELP_SEND_BOOZE t1_ir1inb1 wrote

So long as management can take away benefits at their whim, every workplace should be unionized. The workplace should be a democracy, not a dictatorship.

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OnionQuest t1_ir1j10a wrote

That doesn't really matter if joining a union means the employee captures more of the value of their output in compensation.

They could be paid $100k/year, but if their output is valued at $1M/year they could probably benefit from a union.

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PsecretPseudonym t1_ir1gsb1 wrote

Once it’s up and running, I’d be surprised if there were as many typical factory jobs from this sort of work to form a union as some might expect. I get the impression semiconductor fabs are highly automated. It’s not like workers are laying down and connecting those transistors by hand.

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kumatoras t1_ir1lzoa wrote

It still takes a lot of people to run a wafer fab. Intel fabs for instance are highly automated but you still need folks to keep tabs on the machines and also folks to fix them. These factories staff quite a lot of people depending on their size, and the more machines you have, the more people you need.

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SafetyMan35 t1_ir3q57l wrote

Lots of maintenance, support and cleaning that needs to go on.

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Warpig1497 t1_ir3wu3i wrote

I've done alot of work inside of intel in oregon and you wouldn't belive the amount of people it takes to keep a semiconductor facility running, just in trade workers it employer thousands to keep the plant running at quality it needs to be running and as far as the fab goes all the tools and automation typically take someone to monitor the process and deal with any problems, and most every semiconductor being built in the US is built by union labor

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Aeoleone t1_ir1icmt wrote

You'd be surprised. I'm not familiar with how micron operates, but I've worked at one of their competitors; there's a lot of jobs in maintenance and facilities support. The big hangup, IMHO, is that there's typically a 2yr degree / military background requirement, so it's harder to just go into the field.

My department, for example, was on the middleish size, and was staffed to have about 56 full time shift workers, outside of the non-management engineering staff.

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