SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Hankook Tire & Technology Co., the world’s sixth-largest tiremaker by sales, said it resumed operations at its two plants in South Korea on Sunday, 26 days after a strike began over this year’s wage deal. The deal reached Friday includes a 6 percent increase in basic monthly pay, 5 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — About 1,000 food delivery workers will walk off the job next week as part of a general strike called by one of the country’s two umbrella labor organizations, union officials said Friday. Delivery workers of South Korea’s leading food delivery services, Baedal Minjok, Coupang Eats and Yogiyo, designated Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Department store salespeople from three foreign cosmetic brands will go on strike for two days during Chuseok holiday, demanding improvements to their work environment, welfare and work-life balance. Labor unions from L’Oreal Korea, Chanel Korea and Shiseido Korea under the Korean Federation of Service Workers Union are organizing the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The unionized workers of Seoul Metro, operator of the Seoul subway system, called off a planned walkout that was set to take place Tuesday as they reached a last-minute deal with the management. The deal was reached shortly before midnight following a marathon negotiation that began at 3 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unionized health workers called off their planned strike Thursday, hours before the unionized workers were set to go on a nationwide strike amid the pandemic. The Korean Health and Medical Workers’ Union (KHMU), representing more than 56,000 nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals, said it reached [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized health workers will go on strike next week to demand better working conditions and the expansion of public health infrastructure amid the pandemic, their union said Friday, raising concerns over a workforce shortage in hospitals as South Korea is battling the worst wave of COVID-19. The Korean Health [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Representatives of the labor union at Samsung Display Co. on Monday launched their first-ever strike after failing to reach a compromise on a wage hike, and the walkout marks the first after group chief Lee Jae-yong promised to abolish the conglomerate’s “no labor union” policy. Six representatives of Samsung [...]
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, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized tower crane operators on Tuesday began a general strike nationwide over safety fears, putting nearly 90 percent of domestic construction sites at risk of being halted. The operators belonging to the Korean Construction Workers’ Union (KCWU) went on strike, accusing the government of failing to take sufficient measures [...]
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 [...]