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TRUCKERS' STRIKE * South korea - End of truckers’ strike in sight
Union workers make progress on key transportation rate issue
Seoul,S.Korea -The Hankyoreh -20 June 2008: -- A nationwide strike by the Korea Cargo Workers Union virtually ended on June 19, as the industrial action entered into its seventh straight day... On the afternoon of the same day at the fifth round of negotiations held at a maritime office in Busan, the KCWU and the Container Transport Companies Association reached an agreement to accept a government’s compromise to raise transport fees by 19 percent. The KCWU accepted the government’s proposal to make a standardized transportation rate law by 2009, “after conducting a trial operation of it.”... Under the system of standardized transportation rates, a committee represented by the government, cargo owners, shippers and truck drivers, would regularly set minimum freight rates for drivers, reflecting oil prices and living costs... (Photo: Members of the Korea Cargo Workers Union in Busan who are still on strike look at the running trucks after making an agreement between the KCWU and the Container Transport Companies Association on June 19)* Cargo to move as truck strike ends in South Korea
Yongsan Garrison,South Korea —Stars and Stripes, by Jimmy Norris and Hwang Hae-rym -June 22, 2008: -- U.S. military officials in South Korea predict smooth shopping for customers at on-post stores, despite a truckers’ strike that left much of the cargo shipped from overseas stranded at the port in Busan for seven days... The strike at the country’s largest port ended Thursday when drivers agreed to return to work after some of their demands were met... (Photo by Jimmy Norris / S&S - Soldiers from the 551st Inland Cargo Transfer Company guide a cargo container to the ground after a crane removes it from a train Friday at Yongsan Garrison)
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