SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at GM Korea Co. voted Tuesday to go on strike to protest the carmaker’s plan to establish a separate R&D corporation. In the two day vote that began Monday, 78 percent of the 10,234-member GM Korea union agreed to a walkout as a sign of opposition to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Tomorrow marks the 50th day that workers of Oracle Korea, the IT firm headquartered in the U.S., have been on strike, breaking the record for the longest strike by workers of an overseas IT firm. The previous record was held by workers of Fujitsu Korea for an 18-day strike [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Broadband’s maintenance arm, Home & Service, overlooking the installation and repair duties of SK’s Internet and IPTV services, said that it was initiating a work strike. The company’s union held a press conference yesterday in front of the company’s main office in Jongno, Seoul to reveal plans to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers of public broadcaster KBS will end a nearly five-month strike this week, the union said Tuesday, one day after the company board approved a motion to dismiss its president, who has been accused of political bias and unfair labor practices. The union plans to hold a ceremony [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — As labor unions and management remain in a deadlock, the labor disputes at South Korea’s two major broadcasters are likely to continue for a while, industry watchers said Monday. The labor unions at KBS and MBC have started a sit-in since Sept. 4, calling for the removal of management [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A few thousand union members at Korea’s two biggest TV networks went on strike simultaneously on Monday to protest alleged management interference in news coverage and unfair labor practices. Union members associated with the National Union of Media Workers at KBS and MBC, two of the country’s biggest terrestrial [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at Hyundai Motor Co. will stage a partial strike on Monday after seven rounds of walkouts that already cost the company 620 billion won (US$553 million) in production losses, corporate sources said. The company’s union said its day-shift workers at Hyundai’s main plants in Ulsan, 414 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Company and its labor union remain locked in a stalemate with the domestic automotive industry in the midst of one of its most critical moments in recent history. In what has become something of a yearly tradition, one of the chief sticking points in the talks is the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — GM Korea is reportedly in dire straits. The company already saw a partial work stoppage on July 17. Circumstances have become so serious that the Korea Development Bank (KDB Bank), the second largest shareholder in the company, questioned the automaker’s ability to stay in business. In 2002, Daewoo Motors was [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Unionized workers at South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. staged a strike for the third consecutive workday Monday, opposing the firm’s decision to split the ailing company. The labor union said it has called on its 14,000 workers to stage an eight-hour sit-down starting at 8:00 a.m., continuing [...]