Metal Workers Launch Strike With "High-Altitude Sit-In" at Hyundai Shipyard

Metal Workers Launch Strike With "High-Altitude Sit-In" at Hyundai Shipyard

The protracted annual wage negotiations between the Metal Workers Union and HD Hyundai for its shipyards are continuing without an agreement, while the union called management’s negotiations “insincere.” Workers at the three shipyards in South Korea staged a partial strike on September 10, with reports that they will begin a general strike starting on the 11th, which is likely to further impact production at the yards. To demonstrate the union’s…

HD Hyundai union boss scales crane as wage talks collapse

Shipbuilding labour unrest has intensified in South Korea with the head of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ union climbing a 40 m crane at the group’s Ulsan yard this morning in protest over stalled wage negotiations. Baek Ho-sun, branch chief of the Metal Workers’ Union at Hyundai Heavy, began his high-altitude protest shortly before 10 am, …