BUSAN, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Samsung Motors Corp., the Korean unit of French automaker Renault S.A., on Wednesday said it will resume wage negotiations with its labor union after the latter decided to withdraw its full-scale strikes. The company said the two sides will resume their wage talks later in the day. The [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An extended strike at Renault Samsung Motors Corp. is driving up the carmaker’s production losses, with no signs of an imminent breakthrough in talks between the company and its union over wages and working conditions. Some 1,800 assembly line workers entered a “full-scale” strike at Renault Samsung’s only plant [...]
BUSAN, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The labor union of Renault Samsung Motors Corp. on Tuesday voted down a tentative deal on wages and working conditions that it reached with the company last week, the union said. Of the 2,219 union members present for the vote, 51.8 percent cast their ballots against the deal while [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Samsung Motors Corp. and its labor union said Thursday they have reached a tentative agreement over wages and working conditions, possibly ending their drawn-out labor dispute that was feared to undermine the automaker. The union said its members will vote on whether to accept the deal on Tuesday. [...]
PYEONGTAEK, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Nonghyup Logistics Service Inc.’s decision to fire groups of truck drivers and labor union members sparked a protest that is turning into a major dispute between the two parties. Last month, Nonghyup Logistics terminated contracts with truck drivers at the Anseong Logistics Center in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province after they [...]
GWANGJU, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gwangju job project, intended to create thousands of new low-paying jobs to help fight unemployment in provincial areas, appears to have hit a snag in the face of resistance from laborers, officials said Wednesday. The project calls for Hyundai Motor to build a new assembly plant in Gwangju, [...]
Washington, D.C., Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — In airport demonstrations all around the globe, thousands of airport workers and their supporters are putting airlines like United (UAL) on notice as they call for fair wages, union rights, and safe workplaces. With the support of the International Transport Workers’ Federation and the UNI Global Union, airport [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — White-collar employees and engineers at SK hynix Inc. on Thursday announced the launch of a new labor union, calling for the management to adopt a transparent evaluation system for workers. The SK hynix division of the Korean Chemical & Textile & Food Workers’ Union said it has officially opened [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Online gaming giant Nexon Korea Co. launched a labor union on Monday, a first for a game service provider in South Korea. “The establishment of the Nexon union will act as a tow truck to improve labor conditions in the gaming industry as a whole,” the union said in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled that temporary workers who held positions as car salespeople at car dealerships are guaranteed rights outlined by labor union laws. A ruling by Judge Hong Sun-uk yesterday dismissed the petition by car dealership owners to “cancel the decision to allow the labor union [...]