When white-collar employees at LG Electronics, Hyundai Motor, Hyundai Heavy Industries and several other large manufacturers here began moves in 2021 to form labor unions to lobby employers to offer wages and welfare similar to those of blue-collar workers, their unprecedented efforts faced skepticism.
An intense backlash from younger workers in South Korea – after the government proposed a 69-hour work week — has prompted a dramatic backflip.
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A major labor umbrella group called on the government Thursday to scrap its proposal for a longer workweek, warning that it would ultimately result in overwork.
Police investigating alleged illegal activities at construction sites raided a Seoul office of a construction labor union affiliated with the militant umbrella organization Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) on Tuesday.
The Yoon administration is reviving old police-state measures in an effort to silence unrest and opposition especially in the working class as social conditions deteriorate.