Sang-gyun Han “Cooperative labor-management relations are Mahindra assistant workers”
Union “Union members prefer cooperative labor-management culture”
Employees are coming to work at Ssangyong Motors headquarters in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do. Photo = News 1
Ssangyong Motors’ union drew a line on the 23rd, saying, “Since 2009, the metallurgical union, an industrial union under the National Federation of Democratic Trade Unions, has withdrawn.” In 2009, the Pyeongtaek plant’s 77-day strike, called the so-called’block strike’, could be recapitulated.
Ssangyong Motor(2,770 0.00%) The union issued a statement on this day regarding the application for corporate rehabilitation procedures (legal administration) and said, “I reflect on myself and self-sufficiently about going through rehabilitation procedures again. I am doing my best to become a union that meets the standards of the people.” Revealed.
The union said, “It is regrettable that I applied for rehabilitation procedures after 11 years, but I agree to submit and apply the application for a decision to withhold rehabilitation procedures (ARS).” Regarding the rehabilitation procedure, he emphasized that it is “a choice to overcome the reality that the sale is not visible,” and “we will close the sale early to secure employment security.”
The union also expressed reluctance to represent or intervene by the KCTU metals union in the crisis situation of Ssangyong Motor. Previously, Han Sang-gyun, the former chairman of the KCTU, who led the Ssangyong Motor Lockdown Strike in 2009, said, “The cooperative labor-management relations that both labor and management have been proud of were only assistant workers in Mahindra.” Is doing. Because democratic union is hope.” It can be interpreted as meaning that the KCTU can come to the fore to resolve this situation. He has been working at the Pyeongtaek factory since last May as a measure to return to all Ssangyong Motor retired workers.
In response to such accusations, the union of Ssangyong Motors said, “The union has not engaged in any industrial action for the past 11 years in a row to realize its social commitment, and all the dismissed have returned to the field to practice the promise to the people.” It was emphasized that it was the result of the members of Ssangyong Motor. “In the process of self-reliance such as wage cuts and welfare suspension from last year, this year, we also completed the wage freeze first in the automaker industry.” did.
Cars waiting to be shipped are waiting at Ssangyong Motor’s Pyeongtaek factory office in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do. Photo = News 1
The Ssangyong Motors union saw that its members did not want the recurrence of the 2009 jailbreak strike.
The union said, “More than 95% of the members participated in the voluntary measures that included wage cuts.” “It makes no sense for the Ssangyong Motors division of the metallurgical union that ignores this reality to represent the current situation of Ssangyong Motors.” He added that there were only 17’minority’ in the Ssangyong Motors’ Ministry of Metals Union.
The union plans to actively cooperate in the sale of Ssangyong Motors for job security. The union said, “According to the orders of the union members, we have negotiated the sale and will prepare a policy to secure total employment.
Subsequently, the majority shareholder Mahindra asked for an attitude of’dissolution’. The reason that Ssangyong Motor was looking for a new investor through the sale was due to Mahindra’s withdrawal of an investment plan worth 230 billion won. It is intellectual. The union said to Mahindra, “I hope that the sale can be concluded with an attitude of dissolution,” and added, “If Mahindra’s responsibilities are enforced through the sale, the government and creditors are also expected to support.
The union also requested that “Ssangyong Motor’s partners are complaining of a financial crisis. We hope that the government and creditors will prepare active countermeasures during the ARS program to prevent a possible employment crisis.”
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