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 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Tower crane workers belonging to two major labor umbrella groups kicked off a nationwide strike Tuesday, calling for a pay raise and prohibition of the use of smaller tower cranes. The operation of around 2,500 tower cranes was suspended at construction sites, with the same number of unionized workers [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Samsung Motors Corp. and its labor union said Thursday they have reached a tentative agreement over wages and working conditions, possibly ending their drawn-out labor dispute that was feared to undermine the automaker. The union said its members will vote on whether to accept the deal on Tuesday. [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized bus drivers in Seoul, Busan and all other metropolitan cities and provinces canceled a planned strike on Wednesday after reaching last-minute wage deals with their management. Labor and management at about 200 bus companies nationwide held marathon negotiations until early Wednesday morning over wage hikes for drivers who [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nationwide public transportation chaos is looming, as unionized bus drivers across the country have been voting overwhelmingly to strike to demand pay hikes and manpower increases in time for the implementation of a mandatory 52-hour workweek in the bus industry this summer. Some 35,000 drivers from 10 cities and [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Workers at GM Korea Co.’s R&D firm voted to go on strike against the carmaker’s move to apply unfavorable wages and working conditions for the spin-off entity, GM Korea’s union said Tuesday. In a vote held Monday and Tuesday, 83 percent of 2,067 employees at the GM Technical Center [...]