Just a few sentences from the article are enough to help roughly understand what the company’s labor relations would . . . → Read More: Hyundai Motor’s case]]> While running through past news on labor issues, I found an article by Yonhap News on Hyundai Motor’s move to build overseas plants and a response from its labor union that is famous for repeated strike for the last decade or so.

Just a few sentences from the article are enough to help roughly understand what the company’s labor relations would be like. 

South Korea’s top automaker, has been aggressively building overseas factories as part of its bid to shield itself from labor strikes at home.

The management should build a new plant at home to sustain job security and assuage the concerns of union members. (spoken by a labor union staff during a union-organized forum)

Union leaders clarified that they would demand the management pay higher wages, though they also seek to cut work hours to an 8-hour shift from the current 10-hour shift a day. (at the same forum)

A labor union asking management to stay and even build more plants in Korea, while demanding shorter working hours and higher wages and promising to stage strike to get what they need? I wonder whether labor unions in US or Europe also sound like this when they face their companies’ plan to move out of the country.

As Yonhap site does not provide the full-text, I copy an indirect link here.