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 [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized delivery workers have voted to go on strike in protest against a ban on ground-floor parking at a mega apartment complex in eastern Seoul, their union said Friday. Approximately 6,000 workers voted the previous day, and 77 percent approved a walkout, the union, associated with the Korean Confederation [...]
BUSAN, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at Renault Samsung Motors Corp. said Monday they have decided to lay down their tools again to demand a wage hike. Renault Samsung’s 1,900-strong workforce will launch an eight-hour strike at their plant in Busan, around 450 kilometers south of Seoul, on Tuesday as they are not [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A conflict between doctors on one side and the government and the ruling party on the other has become heated over a bill that would disqualify medical doctors convicted of felonies. An association of doctors threatened to carry out “a general strike” of angry doctors across the country if [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest association of doctors said Sunday it will stage a general strike if parliament passes a revised bill on revoking the licenses of medical professionals convicted of serious crimes. The threat by the Korean Medical Association (KMA), which represents about 130,000 doctors, comes only five days before [...]
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 [...]