This is a genuinely underrated area specifically for american communists to penetrate but it has to be done very carefully and clandestinely, but this has unexpected advantages and points of leverage for workers that basically no other industry has.
The semiconductor industry has historically been one of the most extreme in its anti-union behaivor. The industry is one of the most important sectors to the entire bourgeois order. Its a resource in the ongoing great power rivalry and its an essential component in the entire economy as well as being intertwined with the defense industry. A strike at a few semi fabs doesn't just stop production at those fabs, it ripples through the entire economy.
This is why all attempts at open organizing have been swiftly put down by management. Lenin's model of factory cells operating in a clandestine fashion has to be implemented.
These companies employ armies of consultants, lawyers, and HR departments to surveill and identify behavor that looks like unionizing to nip it in the bud, however its primarily focused on open and obvious signs, such as workers huddling together at weird times, circulation of cards, and openly talking about unions. These structures are useless against the factory cell. Think about it: how the hell would management catch a factory cell organized of people who have become close friends on the job, that meets once a week in a location off property outside of work hours and has other cells in other factories doing the same thing, and cell members dont know the people in cells in other factories besides one external contact. An HR karen is no match for lenin.
This sector also contains some very specific characteristics and advantages that should make a prime target for militant communist organizing
•Extremely important
as previously mentioned this sector sits at the commanding heights of the capitalist economy, intertwined with national security interests and economic activity over the whole economy
•Low-offshore risk
governments are fighting to keep these factories on shore at all costs and make more. If a strike happens companies cannot simply threaten to move offshore for several reasons. 1. the equipment is extremely expensive and not easy to move unlike other manufacturing, and 2. much of these factories are built off government subsidised handouts that cannot just be taken back. and 3. these factories take massive capital and time
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