SEOUL/BUSAN, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized parcel delivery workers are demanding better working conditions to cope with the intense summer heat, saying several couriers collapsed in the scorching weather this week. According to the Parcel Delivery Workers’ Solidarity Union, a 57-year-old courier at a Lotte Global Logistics terminal in Busan, 450 kilometers southeast of [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery workers will be banned from sorting parcels and working over 60 hours per week, the final deal between their union and logistics firms showed Tuesday. The details of the deal, reached last week, were released during a press conference at the National Assembly in Seoul, attended by members [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The delivery workers union struck a deal Friday with the national postal service, ending labor disputes and opening a way for a safer working environment for couriers. The Korea Post accepted the demands by the Parcel Delivery Workers’ Solidarity Union that its couriers will be exempt from sorting parcels [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized delivery workers began a general strike Wednesday, saying logistics firms have stalled implementing an agreement on preventing their overwork. The Parcel Delivery Workers’ Solidarity Union said the indefinite walkout was approved by 4,910, or 92.3 percent, of 5,310 members who took part in a vote earlier in the [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A delivery workers union has suggested a solution to a highly publicized dispute over parking rules between them and residents of a mega apartment complex in eastern Seoul. In a press release on Thursday, the union said a similar conflict at another complex, also in eastern Seoul, was resolved [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized delivery workers said Monday they will withhold their planned strike following the government’s offer to address their grievances through a formal consultative body. The reversal came three days after the delivery workers’ union announced a partial strike on a future undetermined date in protest of a ban on [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized delivery workers have voted to go on strike in protest against a ban on ground-floor parking at a mega apartment complex in eastern Seoul, their union said Friday. Approximately 6,000 workers voted the previous day, and 77 percent approved a walkout, the union, associated with the Korean Confederation [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of protecting public safety is not arguable. But what if it comes at the price of forcing others to make sacrifices — physically and financially? The ongoing conflict at a mega apartment complex in eastern Seoul between thousands of its residents and package delivery workers might provide [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized delivery workers ended a strike Friday, saying they have reached a new agreement with logistics companies on ways to prevent them from overworking. The Parcel Delivery Workers’ Solidarity Union said its 5,500 members, who began and ended the walkout the same day, will return to work Saturday, with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery workers said Wednesday they will launch a strike later this week, accusing logistics firms of violating the terms of their recent agreement to improve working conditions. The Parcel Delivery Workers’ Solidarity Union said the walkout will begin Friday with the participation of 2,800 members working for private logistics [...]