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Samsung workers are cashing in their chips.
It's World Business Express from the BBC World Service.
I'm Leanna Byrne.
Why this is looking to be a very expensive Eid for Muslims and the drama at the British oil giant BP rumbles on.
But first the price of oil has dropped 5 after Iranian state TV said it had seen an early draft of a possible deal with the US.
With me now, Russ Mould, Investment Director at AJ Bell.
Russ, what do you make of this?
We have been here before, Liana.
It's a draft, initial, unofficial framework, according to the Iranian.
So there's clearly a lot of work to be done here.
Nevertheless, financial markets like it.
As you said, the oil price is down 5%.
And ever since the first ceasefire was called in April, financial markets have been looking to move oil prices down and share prices up, because they think the worst of the tensions are over and a deal, a peace deal, is coming at some stage.
All right, well, keep listening to the BBC World Service for more updates.
Ross, you just stay right there.
We're going to move on.
Samsung Electronics narrowly averted a potential global supply chain crisis after its workers in South Korea voted for a landmark pay deal, averting a strike.
But the company had to pay up.
Some semiconductor workers are in line for a piece of its AI chip profits.
That means a bonus of roughly $400,000 per person on average.
Jay Kwan is the BBC's sole correspondent.
He explained who gets the money.
The company, according to the deal, will set aside 105 of its operating profit, which numbers tens of billions of dollars in just the first quarter.
And they're going to set it aside as the bonuses for its employees.
And it's going to be paid out in the form of company stocks.
And the type of employees who will be getting it is mostly the ones who are making the memory chips.
Those who are not making the memory chips, those who are making the smartphones TVs, these other products that we are familiar with at Samsung.
They will be walking away with a fraction of that, a few thousand dollars maybe.
So it's important to say this dispute, it wasn't about base pay.
It was really about workers wanting a bigger share of those AI-fueled profits.
The first three months of this year, the profit they made is eight times what they made that same time last year.
This is part of the AI boom.
Their memory chips are a critical component in building these data centers.
What Samsung's employees saw is that they looked at their main competitor, SK Hynix, and their workers are getting 10 bonus payments without a cap.
So they were demanding a similar deal.
Now Jake, correct me if I'm wrong, but Samsung historically it's not been seen as a company where unions hold a lot of sway.
So is this a genuine turning point for labor in South Korea?
Is this a big moment?
I think this will be a very important precedence, especially with Samsung being the number one company in South Korea.
It is the most valuable company.
It is the most profitable company.
And some of the observers of today's dispute pointed out this kind of lack of experience between the company and the union members in dealing with this kind of dispute.
And this is why they quickly kind of threatened strike action, which is really the final card that a worker can pull out.
What the observers are predicting is that this kind of profit sharing maybe it will become a norm in the industry.
Jake Kwan in Seoul there.
Now today, around 2 billion Muslims around the world are marking Eid al-Adha, one of the most important festivals in the Islamic calendar.
For many families, the holiday is a time for prayer, gathering with loved ones and sharing food with those in need.
Traditionally, that includes the sacrifice of a sheep or goat, with the meat divided between family, friends and poorer communities.
But this year the global cost of living squeeze and soaring livestock prices mean that for many taking part in that tradition is becoming unaffordable.
Cihan Rahou writes for Parliament Today in Morocco.
This is the most expensive aid on record. sheep prices have simply never been this high.
For example, in Sudan, a country that historically has been able to provide enough local supply to cover demand during the Eid, energy prices have soared for over 100.
And the average cost of sheep is more than what the average public employee gets paid.
Data shows that Muslims buy over 15 million heads of sheep during this holiday.
And it's not just livestock.
For example, this holiday has a ripple effect across the broader economy as spending increases on stuff like travel, shopping and, of course indirectly, through industries like the leather industry.
In some countries, for example in Somalia, livestock is literally the backbone of the economy, as it accounts roughly for 40 of the local GDP.
Many families are either opting out Or the worst alternative, which is that families are resorting to bank loans.
That was Jihan Rahu from Parliament Today in Morocco.
There's been a lot of drama.
The British oil giant BP.
Its chairman, Albert Manifold, was only eight months in the job when he was unexpectedly sacked.
A statement said it was a result of serious concerns related to important governance standards, oversight and conduct.
But now he's since hit back at the company saying he was removed without warning and without explanation and he would not allow a false narrative to go unchallenged.
Simon Jack is the BBC's business editor.
It is messy.
I mean, when you lose a chairman, that's a very big deal for a public limited company, a PLC.
If you lose a chairman with immediate effect, seven months after he took over as chairman, it's a really big deal.
Investors don't like trouble at the top.
So I asked a couple of people close to the company what was the reason behind it.
And they said it was behavior described by one person as bullying and overbearing.
I spoke to a second person.
And I said, so how serious are we talking?
And they said, listen, it's a big lever to pull getting rid of a chairman.
So you wouldn't do it unless it was serious.
The board of BP say the decision to remove him was unanimous.
We're on our third CEO in three years and we're going to be on our third chairman in three years by the time a new one is appointed.
Simon, this is a real corporate soap opera.
But at what point does repeated boardroom drama start to actually damage the credibility of the business?
It does.
The investors I've spoken to say that they are convinced enough that BP is set on a direction to refocus, as Shell has done, its big rival on oil and gas.
They think that strategy will stick.
But clearly, when you have chopping and changing in the boardroom, it creates an air of instability.
And I think people want to see things settle down and knuckle down.
They've got a new chief executive, Meg O'Neill.
She's American.
She was working for an Australian company and the board seemed to be very impressed with her.
Simon Jack there with me still, Ross Mould.
Ross, has this moved BP's share price?
It has.
And the shares were down in London 4% on Tuesday.
They're down another 3% today on Wednesday.
Some of that may be related to the oil price weakness that we're seeing in the markets because of these possibly Iranian peace talks, but investors are clearly not happy.
They don't like companies having potentially negative cultures.
They don't like to see lots of management change at the top in quick succession and they will want to know at BP is it still on track to turn around its operational and financial performance as part of its pivot back to oil and gas?
That's Boss Meg O'Neill's big job.
And it is a big job because the shares are back where they were in 1999, which tells you what shareholders think of its performance over that very long period of time.
It certainly does.
Russ Mould always has lots of intel, even dating back to 1999.
Russ Mould, Investment Director at AJ Bell.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Now it's been less than two months since the world watched as NASA's Artemis 2 mission marked a return to the moon with a flyby.
The views of planet Earth.
We've circled it completely and we forgot how beautiful it is to look down on Earth.
Now the U.S.
Space Agency has unveiled a 20 billion plan for a lunar base by 2032, with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin helping build the technology.
Dr. Laurie Glaze is from NASA.
We are building humanity's first outpost beyond Earth.
Through Artemis we are going, and with Moonbase, we're going to stay.
And together NASA, industry and international partners.
We are creating a future where exploration is not just an incredible moment in history, but the first foothold beyond Earth for all of humanity.
There you go.
Dr. Lauren Glaze from NASA there.
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Hi, this is Oliver Conway from the Global News Podcast, and we're asking whether workers at Samsung have set a precedent for sharing out the spoils of AI, after they secured annual bonuses of nearly 400000 this year in order to settle a threatened strike.
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