SpaceDoctorWOBorders t1_ir1kc3b wrote on October 4, 2022 at 5:42 PM

Reply to comment by Lt_Scott_Summer in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek

Everyone can benefit from a union. It gives workers a voice.

OnionQuest t1_ir1j10a wrote on October 4, 2022 at 5:33 PM

Reply to comment by Lt_Scott_Summer in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek

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.

NEED_HELP_SEND_BOOZE t1_ir1inb1 wrote on October 4, 2022 at 5:31 PM

Reply to comment by Lt_Scott_Summer in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek

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.

Aeoleone t1_ir1icmt wrote on October 4, 2022 at 5:29 PM

Reply to comment by PsecretPseudonym in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek

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.

set-271 t1_ir1h925 wrote on October 4, 2022 at 5:22 PM

Reply to comment by BlueGuyBuff in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek

Water security is probably one of the primary reasons.

PsecretPseudonym t1_ir1gsb1 wrote on October 4, 2022 at 5:19 PM

Reply to comment by Jojothewhale in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek

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.

RumbleSuperswami t1_ir1gmgo wrote on October 4, 2022 at 5:18 PM

Reply to comment by paulerxx in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek

Up near Syracuse, I think

Biscuits4u2 t1_ir1ev8n wrote on October 4, 2022 at 5:07 PM

Reply to comment by westbamm in Nvidia RTX 3060 Begins its Reign as the Most Popular GPU | Combined desktop and laptop puts the 3060 at the top of the Steam charts by chrisdh79

Yeah but when the release date of something new is this close it makes sense to wait unless there is some reason you absolutely have to buy something right now, not to mention it will probably drive current gen prices down even more.