{"id":52373,"date":"2024-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myanmarnewswire.com\/?guid=2f3de54a014765089d9f6ae3506d8584"},"modified":"2024-03-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:00:00","slug":"seoul-bus-union-to-hold-last-minute-talks-with-management-on-eve-of-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarnewswire.com\/seoul-bus-union-to-hold-last-minute-talks-with-management-on-eve-of-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul bus union to hold last-minute talks with management on eve of strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n SEOUL, The union of intracity bus drivers in Seoul and their employers are set to hold last-minute negotiations over wage hikes Wednesday ahead of a threatened general strike that could halt the operation of 7,210 intracity buses, or 97.6 percent of the capital’s total, if carried out the following day as announced.<\/p>\n
The negotiations between the Seoul Bus Labor Union and representatives of their management are to take place at a regional labor relations office at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
The union has voted to launch a general strike at 4 a.m. on Thursday after failing to reach a deal on wage hikes with the management and the Seoul city government.<\/p>\n
The union, which has about 18,000 members at 65 companies, has reportedly demanded a 12.7 percent increase in hourly wage, revision of the salary system and the abolition of wage discrimination for contract workers.<\/p>\n
But the demand has been dismissed by the management as “excessive” particularly in consideration of the inflation rate of the past five years.<\/p>\n
The last time the
\nSeoul bus union went on strike was in 2012.<\/p>\n
Source: Yonhap News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SEOUL, The union of intracity bus drivers in Seoul and their employers are set to hold last-minute negotiations over wage hikes Wednesday ahead of a threatened general strike that could halt the operation of 7,210 intracity buses, or 97.6 percent of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n