SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized delivery workers ended a strike Friday, saying they have reached a new agreement with logistics companies on ways to prevent them from overworking. The Parcel Delivery Workers’ Solidarity Union said its 5,500 members, who began and ended the walkout the same day, will return to work Saturday, with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery workers said Wednesday they will launch a strike later this week, accusing logistics firms of violating the terms of their recent agreement to improve working conditions. The Parcel Delivery Workers’ Solidarity Union said the walkout will begin Friday with the participation of 2,800 members working for private logistics [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized delivery workers on Friday threatened to launch a general strike unless measures are put in place to prevent their overwork before next month’s Lunar New Year. Parcel deliveries are expected to increase around the holiday, which falls on Feb. 12 this year, as people travel to their hometowns [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at Kia Motors Corp. will extend their partial strike this week to demand higher wages and bonuses amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the union said Monday. Daytime and night-duty workers will hold a four-hour strike daily at Kia’s three domestic plants in Gwangmyeong and Hwaseong, both near Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of after-school child care workers at elementary schools staged a one-day strike Friday, leaving parents and teachers scrambling to fill the void. Some 4,900 after-school child care workers, around 41 percent of their total number in the country, took part in the strike, according to a national labor [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of General Motors Co., said Friday it will reconsider investing in its main plant as its union continues to strike for higher wages. GM Korea will “reconsider making an investment in the company’s No. 2 Bupyeong plant for the production of a next-generation [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery workers contracted with Lotte Global Logistics ended their strike late Thursday after reaching an agreement with the company on compensation and work conditions. The unionized workers launched a nationwide strike Tuesday demanding better treatment following a series of deaths of their colleagues, apparently from overwork. “We have decided [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery workers at Lotte Global Logistics on Tuesday launched a nationwide strike to demand better treatment following the deaths of their colleagues apparently from overwork. The workers announced the strike at a distribution center in southeastern Seoul, saying they will be joined by around 250 colleagues across the nation [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major hospitals are maintaining scaled down operations, as trainee doctors have yet to return to work despite an agreement reached to end their weekslong strike, medical sources said Saturday. Large university hospitals have reduced treatments and surgeries and have restricted the number of patients they admit, as [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of senior and junior doctors decided Friday to end a weekslong collective action after reaching a deal with health authorities and the ruling party to review a medical reform plan, but trainee doctors are still threatening to continue their walkout. Doctors at general hospitals and other medical institutes [...]