Gyeonggi-do Launches Support Project for Organizing Vulnerable Workers

[Asia Economy (Uijeongbu) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province will launch the 'Support Project for Organizing Vulnerable Workers' starting this year to enable workers who find it difficult to join labor unions to raise their voices together.

The target group includes platform laborers such as delivery workers and substitute drivers, as well as security workers, who have difficulty joining or forming labor unions and thus do not receive proper labor rights protection.

Gyeonggi Province will form representative organizations to help vulnerable workers organize their own groups and support them with dedicated personnel operating expenses and project funds so they can strengthen their capabilities and carry out activities to improve working conditions.

In the initial stage of supporting new organizations, the province will assist in forming workers' groups and basic activities, and promote capacity building and labor condition improvement projects such as legal education and job training.

In the network support stage, the province will enable autonomous projects and help establish cooperative networks among organizations by region and industry to build a foundation for pursuing common interests.

In the representative organization stage, the province will support workers to independently carry out activities to protect their rights and interests.

The province plans to invest 150 million KRW this year to conduct a pilot project targeting three workers' groups, and from next year onwards, support two or more groups annually.

The province will recruit participating groups or organizations for the project until the 17th and begin support from September.

Kim Gyu-sik, Director of the Labor Bureau of Gyeonggi Province, emphasized, "The purpose of this project is to help individual workers raise a unified voice through organization," adding, "We will provide systematic support so that workers can take an interest in labor improvement issues and actively protect their labor rights."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.