Hyundai (SEOUL, South Korea) Workers Begin Partial Strike

[Omaha Steve]

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Hyundai Workers Begin Partial Strike

Monday January 15, 8:19 AM EST



SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Unionized workers at Hyundai Motor Co. began a promised partial strike Monday amid a dispute with management over bonuses, a union official said.

The walkout, which was approved last week by union representatives, began as scheduled Monday afternoon, said Jung Jun-yung, the head of the union's overseas cooperation department. Unionized workers plan to lay down tools Monday for a total of eight hours at three different factories.

Hyundai Motor confirmed the strike was under way, company spokesman Jake Jang said. Hyundai asked the Ulsan District Court to issue an order barring the walkout, Jang said, though added no decision had yet been reached.

Ulsan is an industrial city 260 miles southeast of Seoul where the world's sixth-largest automaker has its main factory.

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[JCMach1]

1. One of the reasons I bought a Hyundai was the heavy

unionization...

[VADem11]

2. Nothing new

Hyundai workers go on strike every year and often are involved in violent clashes with the police. It's why their Alabama plant isn't unionized.