Taiwan President Calls for Micron, Workers to Negotiate 'Sincerely' Ahead of Possible Strike

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• Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, speaking in Taichung on October 15, urged Micron and its unions to keep negotiating 'sincerely and in good faith to build the broadest possible consensus,' per Investing.com, saying harmonious labor relations benefit both sides; he also thanked Micron for its Taiwan investment, voiced hope for more, and noted the company had secured government support for HBM (high-bandwidth memory) R&D.
• The Taichung union won strike authorization from members last week in a dispute over bonus policy and said it expects more substantive dialogue with the company; the Taoyuan union's September mediation ended without agreement, and that union is recommending members join an October 19 Taipei rally, which it says is not a strike. Taiwan is one of Micron's largest manufacturing bases with about 15,000 employees; the core dispute is over profit-sharing in the bonus structure. Micron and the Taoyuan union did not immediately comment; Micron COO Manish Bhatia did not address the strike directly but said the plant's 2027 production capacity is already fully sold.

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