Korea's biggest industrial union recruits migrant workers amid shipbuilding boom

Korea's biggest industrial union recruits migrant workers amid shipbuilding boom

A major industrial labor union has launched a membership drive targeting migrant workers at Hyundai’s shipbuilding complex in Ulsan, seeking to expand its reach to tens of thousands of subcontracted workers — many of them foreign — as members prepare for new talks with the company. A senior official at the Korean Metal Workers’ Union (KMWU) said the campaign’s goal is to integrate migrants, a rapidly increasing demographic in shipyards, into the…