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In the wake of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), Hyundai Motor’s workforce and management have reached an interim wage bargaining agreement called ‘Wage Freeze’ without a strike.
On the 21st, Hyundai Motor Company workers and management drafted a tentative agreement in the twelfth wage negotiation that took place in the video conference room at three bases, including the main building of the Ulsan plant, with the presence of managerial and labor bargaining representatives, including President Ha Eon-tae and union branch manager Lee Sang-soo.
The main contents of the interim agreement are salary freeze, 150% incentives, 1.2 million won as stimulus to overcome the crown crisis, 10 employee shares and 200,000 won for traditional market gift certificates to revitalize the economy. local.
Workers and management are not only fully sympathetic to the national socio-economic situation that has been difficult due to Corona 19, but also agree that joint efforts are needed to overcome the crisis in the auto industry facing the global economic recession, and agree on a salary plan that takes into account business performance and sustainability. did.
The outcome of this deal is being evaluated as “it was crafted with an emphasis on mutually beneficial survival and future development with parts suppliers, rather than causing controversy over wages to cause selfishness in conglomerate unions.” . Expectations are also rising about the union’s changing atmosphere.
This is the result of reflecting the will of workers and management to overcome the crisis together, how to prepare for the paradigm shift in the auto industry focused on green and autonomous cars and the post-corona era.
The wage freeze is the third time since the IMF financial crisis in 1998 and the financial crisis in 2009. Furthermore, as a result of intense labor-management negotiations to overcome the coronavirus situation, a provisional agreement was drawn up without dispute for two consecutive years minimizing the negotiation period. The interim settlement for no consecutive disputes is the second since 2009-2011. The negotiation period took 40 days from the meeting to the agreement.
In particular, workers and management adopted the ‘Social Declaration for the Joint Development of Workers and Management and Changes in Relations between Workers and Management’ in this agreement. The statement is to ▲ Ensure the future competitiveness of national factories and stabilize the employment of incumbent workers ▲ Respond to future changes in the automotive industry, such as the expansion of electric vehicles ▲ Operate a job change program in preparation for futures industrial changes ▲ Make labor and management relations with customers and citizens a reality ▲ Spare parts partners to overcome the crisis in the automotive industry Mutually beneficial support ▲ Contains the content of joint efforts for the survival of the automotive industry and labor relations -Managers of mutual benefit by realizing customer satisfaction among workers and management through quality improvement.
Through this social statement, the workers and management decided to expand and operate a “ win-win cooperation program ” at the group level to support spare parts suppliers suffering from the protracted coronavirus. Furthermore, through a separate agreement between manpower and management, the city of Ulsan and Ulsan Buk-gu office decided to participate in the project to create a special subsidy for the maintenance of employment of local suppliers of spare parts by worth 50 billion won to discuss detailed support plans.
In addition, the workforce and management are sympathetic to the premise that high vehicle quality leads to customer acquisition and job safety ▲ Organize a quality council for each production plant ▲ Strengthen joint improvement activities the quality of manpower and management at the new car stage ▲ Invest 200 billion won in quality improvements by 2025 ▲ Process quality feedback system A plan to ensure perfect quality for the “realization of customer satisfaction by improving quality” as the operation.
A Hyundai Motors official said: “In the midst of the Corona 19 crisis and the turning point of the auto industry, we are focused on ensuring competitiveness in the future age of the automobile and preparing a deal for survival.” “Although the business environment is not easy, workers and management are working together to overcome the crisis and we will focus our capabilities to advance as leaders in the age of the automobile of the future, such as autonomous driving.”
/ Korean GP Reporter Kihong Kim [email protected], Photo = Hyundai Motor Company
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