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TRUCKERS STRIKE * SOUTH KOREA
* South Korea - Truckers’ walkout - Union, government should reach compromise quickly
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Seoul,S.Korea -The Korea Times -25 June 2012: -- Unionized truck drivers launched a walkout across the country from 7 a.m. Monday, raising fears of turmoil in cargo transportation for the first time in four years... Despite the indefinite strike led by the Korean Cargo Transport Workers’ Union under the wing of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, few problems have as yet been reported concerning transportation. The truckers’ union said about 80 percent of 380,000 truckers all over the country would take part in the nationwide action but it was not immediately known how many took part on the first day... The union, which has about 10,000 members, has made five demands of the government: improvements in the so-called standard freight charge system, a 30-percent increase in transportation fees, industrial accident compensation insurance for all truckers, tax exemption on fuel and the introduction of standardized contracts. At the heart of the latest dispute is the standard freight charge system, which the union claims benefits only large logistics companies... Under the current system drivers, self-employed subcontractors, have to pay commission to logistics firms and middlemen every time they sign a deal to carry goods. The drivers are supposed to receive only 40 percent of the fee for each delivery. The government promised a better system in 2008, when the truckers last staged a strike... 
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