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Hyundai Workers to Continue Strikes Next Week

SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Unionized workers at Hyundai Motor Co. will continue to walk out next week for higher wages and bonuses after the company rejected the union’s demands, the union said Thursday. “In the past eight months of negotiations, the company has not shown any ‘progressive’ approach in the wage deal, repeating it faces difficult times and does not have room to fully accept [...]

Hyundai Workers to Stage Strike This Week in Push for Higher Wages

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Workers at Hyundai Motor Co. will stage a partial strike at the carmaker’s main domestic plants this week in a push for higher wages and bonuses, the union said Tuesday. Hyundai’s 51,000-member union will go on strike for four to six hours Tuesday through Friday at five plants in Ulsan, 414 kilometers south of Seoul, as the union seeks to pressure the company to accept their demands in this year’s wage negotiations, [...]