Subway, railway workers to go on joint strike against merit pay system
Social affairsSept 26, 2016
South Korea's railway and subway workers will go on strike against the government's performance-based pay system later this week, marking the first joint strike between the two sectors in some two decades, labor unions said Monday.The walkout scheduled to begin Tuesday is part of a series of strikes carried out by union workers in the public sector, which started last week with the Federation of Korean Public Industry Trade Unions.The Seoul Metropolitan Government said subway services will run w