Seoul, June 29 (IANS) Unionised workers of Kakao, South Korea’s messenger app operator, took a day off en masse on Monday in a sign of protest amid a continued gridlock in wage negotiations.In their second collective action, unionised members staged what they called a “Log-out Day” by taking simultaneous annual leave, reports Yonhap news agency.Some 2,100 workers from five units of Kakao, including its headquarters, Kakao Pay and Kakao Enterprise, have participated, according to the labor union….
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Seoul, June 28 (IANS) Unionised workers of Samsung Biologics on Sunday voted in favour of a motion to leave a group-wide labor coalition representing workers across Samsung affiliates.A motion to change the union’s organisation structure, with the aim to leave the Samsung Group United Union, was passed following a five-day vote, which ran since Wednesday, reports Yonhap news agency.Of the 4,005 members with voting rights, 2,479 participated and 96.5 percent voted in favour of the move, according…
Seoul, April 16 (IANS) Samsung Electronics has filed for a court injunction in connection with potential collective action by its labour union that could disrupt production, industry sources said on Thursday.According to the sources, the company made the legal request with the Suwon District Court earlier in the day in an apparent move to prevent the union from occupying key facilities, such as semiconductor production lines, in order to avoid significant operational losses, reports Yonhap news …