- Title: SOUTH KOREA: KOREAN AIR LINES' PILOTS GO ON STRIKE GROUNDING MOST OF THE FLIGHTS
- Date: 12th June 2001
- Summary: (U3) INCHON, SOUTH KOREA (JUNE 12, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/SV/SLV PLANES OF KOREAN AIR AND ASIANA AIRLINES AT INCHEON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (3 SHOTS) 0.18 2. LV/SLV OF EMPTY CHECK-IN COUNTER FOR KOREAN AIR (2 SHOTS) 0.30 3. SV/CU OF ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARD READING "CANCELLED" BESIDE AIR FLIGHT LIST (2 SHOTS) 0.39 4. LV/SV CUSTOMERS TALKING WITH KOREAN AIR EMPLOYEES (2 SHOTS) 0.51 5. MCU (Korean) 46-YEAR OLD KOREAN PARK YOUNG-SANG SAYING: "I have used Korean Air flights because it's our county's flagship carrier. Nobody (from the company) takes responsibility now. Nobody knows how to compensate for the cancelled flights. They just told me to go here and there." 1.01 6. SV CHECK-IN COUNTER 1.07 (U3) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (JUNE 12, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 7. LV OF RALLY BY KCTU (2 SHOTS) 1.17 8. SLV PROTESTERS HOLDING POSTERS READING IN KOREAN: "VIOLENT POLICE" "SPECIAL LAW FOR RESTRUCTURING" "REVISING LABOUR LAW INTO WORSE ONE" 1.22 9. MCU (Korean) KCTU LEADER DAN BYONG-HO SAYING: "We demand various systems be reformed to revive workers and Korean economy and for the real reform." 1.37 10. LV OF RALLY 1.40 11. SLV/LV OF PROTESTERS MARCHING IN STREET AS POLICE WATCH FROM SIDE (4 SHOTS) 2.02 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: SEOUL AND INCHON, SOUTH KOREA
- Country: South Korea
- Reuters ID: LVA97093AXCW4G1T8KLNTHFC357J
- Story Text: Pilots have grounded most flights by South Korea's
flagship Korean Air Lines as unions launched nationwide
strikes for shorter work weeks and salary increases.
Most flights at South Korea's flagship Korean Air
Lines were grounded on Tuesday (June 12) as pilots went on
strike for better pay and conditions of work.
Prosecutors were seeking arrest warrants for leaders of
Korean Air pilots' union for organising an illegal strike.
Korean Air said its first international flight on
Tuesday, a B777-300 passenger carrier bound for Manila, could
not take off because of the pilots' strike and about 80
percent of its fleet of 111 planes would inevitably be
grounded. Ground workers at the country's second-ranked Asiana
Airlines also walked out, affecting the carrier's domestic
flights.
Unions of the two airline companies have failed to narrow
differences with management over working conditions and wages.
About 1,400 union members of Korean Air's 1,875 cockpit
crew want to set up a committee to discuss flight rules with
the firm. But Korean Air, which had in principle agreed to the
suggestion, has opposed the union's proposal the committee
should allow a 50 percent participation from the union.
The management also baulked at the union's demand that
the company freeze employment of foreign pilots.
Militant South Korean unions in metal, chemical and heavy
industrial companies also stopped work on Tuesday, defying the
government declaration that a strike was illegal and setting
up a possible violent confrontation with security forces.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), which
includes the airline unions, said more than 50,000 workers
from 126 unions had begun an indefinite strike from Tuesday.
The KCTU, which claims a half-million members, said
workers at large hospitals would walk off the job from
Wednesday.
About 10,000 KCTU members staged a protest rally at a
Seoul park and marched through the central Seoul.
President Kim Dae-jung warned after a cabinet meeting
that the strikes were shaking social stability and the
government would sternly deal with the illegal walkout and any
violence.
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