The fight for safe rates for transportation workers in South Korea
Transport workers at a rally held in Seoul on 30 June 2018, organised by the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union, hold signs that say: ‘Safe rates in all sectors!’.
(KPTU-TruckSol
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20 January 2021
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Transport workers at a rally held in Seoul on 30 June 2018, organised by the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union, hold signs that say: ‘Safe rates in all sectors!’.
(KPTU-TruckSol
)
In the past decade, South Korea has emerged as one of East Asia’s most advanced digital economies, with e-commerce, ride-hailing, and other services all growing. But for many truckers and logistics transportation workers, without which these services wouldn’t be possible, the benefits have been few and far between. Deregulation, since the early 1990s, has eased the barrier of entry for smaller companies and owner-operators, while the power of large companies to dictate rates