SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the guilty convictions of dozens of former and current Samsung executives accused of sabotaging labor union activities at a subsidiary company in 2013. The court confirmed a 16-month prison sentence for Kang Kyung-hoon, a vice president at Samsung Electronics Co., on charges of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Display Co. on Thursday signed a collective agreement with its labor union, becoming the first electronics affiliate of Samsung Group to ink such a deal. The agreement was reached about seven months after the management and the labor union started to negotiate on welfare programs and working condition improvements. Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The management and labor union of Samsung Display Co. said Sunday that they will sign a collective agreement this week for the first time among the electronic affiliates of Samsung Group, which declared it would scrap its “no labor union” policy last year. A ceremony to sign the agreement [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of General Motors Co., voted down a tentative wage deal for the year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the company said Tuesday. In a vote held from Monday to Tuesday, 54 percent of 7,364 union workers rejected the tentative deal, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of General Motors Co., unveiled its intention not to allocate a new model to one of its South Korean plants, igniting strong backlash from its labor union. During its wage negotiations with the labor union on Monday, the management of GM Korea [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its labor union agreed Monday to freeze wages for the first time in 11 years as the carmaker struggles to ride out the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The two sides reached a wage deal without a strike for the second consecutive year, the company [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A labor union representing gig workers of food delivery apps submitted an application to the government Thursday to be officially recognized as a labor union. Members of Rider Union held a press conference in front of the labor ministry’s Seoul district office in central Seoul, asking the government to [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Once a symbol of gang life and sometimes an escape route for dodging mandatory military service, tattoos have long been associated with anti-social behavior in South Korea. But that notion is quickly changing thanks to a new wave of delicate and minimally designed tattoos, inked with pastel-colored hues. Patterns [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees at Samsung Life Insurance Co. can launch another labor union following approval from labor authorities, a union official said Thursday, a month after parent Samsung Group’s heir apparent vowed to scrap the group’s “no labor union” policy. The life insurer’s second labor union came in response to some [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — SsangYong Motor Co. and its union on Monday signed a wage deal for the year amid the rising impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the automobile industry. SsangYong workers agreed on a wage freeze as they see stable labor-management relations as key to putting the company back on track [...]