SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees at Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s largest messenger app KakaoTalk, are joining the labor union to protest the company’s recent announcement that all employees should come to the office for work, instead of working from home. The members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Kakao [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of General Motors Co., have indicated that they would like to be able to purchase GM cars based on a price set on the date of the contract, with prolonged delays in car shipments and rising car prices. The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s management and its union signed an annual wage deal Wednesday, the first of its kind since the company’s foundation more than five decades ago. The world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker and its union reached an agreement on a 9 percent pay raise for 2022 [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean branch of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Friday said it has decided to begin mediation procedures between Chanel Korea’s labor union and management over the company’s alleged violation of labor acts and human rights. In December last year, employees of the French luxury [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — About 300,000 delivery platform workers have formed their own labor union. The delivery platform workers affiliated with the Korean Federation of Service Workers’ Union held a press conference in Seoul on Tuesday and launched the Delivery Platform Labor Union (tentative name). The new union members claimed that accidents involving [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and its union will have their first wage talks Tuesday as the tech giant is moving to create a healthy labor-management culture following its leader’s commitment to scrap the conglomerate’s “no labor union” policy. Representatives from Samsung’s management and the union will hold the first round [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Internal conflicts over job sharing among plants are deepening within the labor union at Hyundai Motor Co., with some unionized members even coming to blows during an argument over proceedings. The employment stability committee that the company’s management and labor union planned to host at Hyundai plant in Ulsan, [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. is moving toward electric vehicles to join the global automotive trend, but its workers at the leading automaker fret over the prospect of less assembly work and want job security in the changing business environment. Hyundai Motor’s labor union is girding for a battle after it [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The labor union of financially troubled SsangYong Motor Co. has called on the government to support the normalization of the company’s management, claiming that it is unfair to pass the responsibility of the company’s financial difficulties to the labor union. On Thursday, the labor union held a press conference [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first labor union for firefighters is set to be inaugurated in the latter half of this year. On Monday, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions held a press conference in Seoul regarding the establishment of a preparatory committee for the inauguration of the nation’s first firefighter labor [...]