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 [...]
TAEBAEK, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — In the wake of the death of a miner at the Jangseong Mining Station owned by Korea Coal Corp. last month, coal miners who had demanded safety measures warned of a sit-in in a mine shaft thousands of meters underground. In a letter to the citizens of South Korea, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — GM Korea Co. and Renault Samsung Motors Corp., the South Korean units of U.S. and French auto giants, respectively, are mired in a dispute that is fueling concerns over the broader South Korean auto industry this year. In recent years, the two carmakers, affiliates of General Motors Co. and [...]
BUSAN, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Samsung Motors Corp.’s union announced that it would stage strikes at designated work sites starting on Wednesday. The union halted the assembly line for the 11 a.m. morning shifts. Due to the stoppage, the whole production line was cut off, resulting in no vehicle delivery until 3 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. went on strike Tuesday in a show of opposition to the planned sale to Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Last week, workers at Daewoo Shipbuilding approved a walkout against the proposed deal. The shipbuilder’s union said its workers at the Geoje [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Workers at KB Kookmin Bank, South Korea’s leading lender, launched a nationwide strike Tuesday for the first time in 19 years over wage system reforms and bonuses, its labor union said. The one-day walkout started at 9 a.m., as last-minute overnight negotiations between the labor and the management did [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Workers at KB Kookmin Bank, a major South Korean lender, will go on a general strike next month for the first time in 19 years, its labor union said Thursday. Around 96 percent of some 12,000 unionized workers voted in favor of the walkout in protest of the management’s [...]
ULSAN, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at Hyundai Motor and affiliated Kia Motors staged a partial strike on Thursday in protest of Hyundai’s possible involvement in the Gwangju job project initiated to create thousands of new low-paying jobs to help fight unemployment in provincial areas. About 80,000 Hyundai and Kia workers — 51,000 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A major South Korean labor umbrella group staged a one-day strike across the country Wednesday as a show of opposition to political parties’ move to revise a new work-hour system and demand the abolition of non-regular jobs. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) said over 90,000 affiliated unionized [...]