SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of doctors in training has threatened to stage a strike later this week in protest against a health care workforce reform plan that centers on raising the admission quotas at medical schools, sparking concerns about its impact on the country’s health care service. The health ministry plans [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Labor disputes are still posing a major hurdle for some of the country’s carmakers as they have yet to finish wage deals for the year of 2019 amid a still murky outlook, industry sources said Monday. Of the country’s five carmakers, Hyundai Motor Co. and SsangYong Motor Co. sealed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Samsung Motors Corp. said Friday it has decided to partially shut down its sole plant in South Korea to reduce production losses resulting from strikes staged by its unionized workers. In the past 12 days, the union held partial strikes at the plant in Busan, 453 kilometers south [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at Renault Samsung Motors Corp. on Tuesday voted to strike in protest against the company’s wage freeze proposal for the year. In a vote held at its sole Busan plant, 66 percent of the 2,000-member union agreed on industrial action for an increase in basic pay and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized railway workers ended their no-time-limit strike Monday following a five-day walkout, as they reached a deal with the management over a pay raise and better working conditions. After marathon talks, the labor union and the Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL), the operator of train services, struck an agreement to [...]
DAEJEON/SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Calling for higher wages and more recruitment, railway workers across South Korea went on strike Wednesday, causing inconvenience for train passengers. Unionized workers kicked off a no-time-limit strike at 9 a.m., the first of such strike since a 74-day work stoppage from September to December in 2016. The collective [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Union workers of a bus company in Goyang, west of Seoul, went on strike Tuesday after wage talks with management broke down. Myungsung Transportation’s more than 270 buses on 20 lines, including those linking Seoul and the satellite city in Gyeonggi Province, stopped operations. The union and management failed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized railway workers on Monday wrapped up their 72-hour strike, but train schedules are likely to be affected until services fully resume later in the day. The 19,000-member Korean Railway Workers’ Union ended their 72-hour strike at 9 a.m. They had demanded the Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL) increase wages [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Railway services across South Korea were partially disrupted or delayed Friday as workers began a 72-hour strike demanding better working conditions. Around 82 percent of the country’s regular rail services were under operation as of 4 p.m., according to the Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL) and the Ministry of Land, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers of a Seoul subway began a three-day strike on Monday, demanding an increase in the number of workers and better working conditions. The labor union of Seoul Metro Line 9 Corp., which operates the second and third sections of Seoul Subway Line 9, launched the strike at [...]