SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at GM Korea Co. on Monday staged a full-scale strike for the first time in 22 years as they demand an increase in wages despite warnings from the company’s global headquarters. Some 8,000 workers participated in the walkout at the plants in Incheon, west of Seoul, and [...]
BUSAN, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Subway workers in the southern city of Busan ended their two-day strike Thursday after the labor union and management reached a wage deal. Busan Transportation Corp., the city-run operator of the subway system, agreed with the union to raise wages 0.9 percent and hire 540 new workers. The members [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The latest strikes by non-regular workers in the public sector have put the Moon Jae-in government’s labor policy — including his iconic pledge on minimum wage hikes — to the test, experts say. Moon took office in May 2017 with a pledge to build a society that abides by [...]
BUSAN, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized subway workers in Busan, a major southern port city, went on indefinite strike Wednesday over a pay dispute. The walkout by Busan Metro’s labor union began at 5 a.m. after its last-minute wage hike negotiations with management fell through the previous night. The union said about 2,400 of [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — About 17,000 contract school workers walked off the job on the second day of a strike by non-regular public employees on Thursday, paralyzing cafeteria operations and other supplementary services at 1,700 schools nationwide, the government said. According to the Ministry of Education, 17,342, or 11.4 percent, of the 151,809 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Non-regular workers in the public sector staged a general strike nationwide on Wednesday under the orchestration of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), a militant labor umbrella group. About 26,000 of some 200,000 non-regular public employees affiliated with the KCTU took part in the strike scheduled to continue [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at Renault Samsung Motors Corp. voted for a wage deal on Friday, ending a monthslong dispute at the automaker plagued by output losses and helping it secure production volume for exports. In a vote over the wage deal, 74 percent of Renault Samsung’s 2,063 workers cast ballots [...]
BUSAN, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Samsung Motors Corp., the Korean unit of French automaker Renault S.A., said it reached a tentative agreement with its labor union over wages and working conditions Wednesday. The union members will vote Friday on whether to accept the deal. It will be their second poll since the two [...]
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 [...]