Integrated Emergency Committee Member Who Anticipated Total Strike at Incheon Airport: "Strike Not Allowed Under Current Law"

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyungsoo] Kim Jaeseop, Emergency Response Committee member of the United Future Party, who had predicted that security screening officers at Incheon International Airport Corporation would go on a general strike if they were made regular employees, has corrected his statement, saying it was "a remark made without properly understanding the facts."

On the 25th, Committee member Kim explained, "Under current law, security screening officers cannot strike," and added, "Even if they are directly employed as regular employees under the title of security guards, strikes are prohibited."

Earlier, at a press conference held at the National Assembly on the same day, Committee member Kim claimed, "Among the 1,902 security screening officers who will become regular employees, if a union chairman is elected, it is obvious that they will go on a general strike to overturn the current wage structure," and argued, "The security screening work, which is the key to the nation's gateway, is being held hostage by the general strike."

Committee member Kim criticized the authorities' explanation that "the salary increase after the conversion to regular employment is only 2 million won" as "an approach that obscures the essence of the problem." He also stated, "It is not that I oppose the conversion of non-regular workers to regular employees, but that the process of moving from non-regular to regular employment must be transparent."

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