Already the Fourth This Year... CJ Taekbae Union's Unjustified General Strike

Union: "Worker Deaths from Overwork Exploited for Profit
Fairly Distribute 300 Billion KRW in Excess Profits"
CJ Logistics: "Union's Calculation Criteria Are Ambiguous"

On the 20th, in front of the CJ Logistics headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul, members of the National Courier Workers' Union and civic groups held a press conference urging courier companies to designate apartments where abusive delivery practices are prohibited./Photo by Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

The CJ Logistics Headquarters of the National Courier Workers' Union under the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Service Federation has decided to proceed with an indefinite general strike starting from the 28th, raising concerns about a 'logistics crisis' at the end of the year. This will be the fourth general strike this year, with the justification being the distribution of excess profits resulting from the increase in courier fees. If 1,700 union members with the right to strike participate simultaneously, it is expected that more than 500,000 deliveries per day will inevitably be disrupted.

On the 27th, the CJ Logistics branch of the Courier Workers' Union stated, "CJ Logistics is exploiting the issue of courier workers' death from overwork for profit," and demanded, "Fairly distribute the 300 billion KRW in excess profits generated from the increase in courier fees."

The 300 billion KRW in excess profits claimed by the union is calculated based on the profit CJ Logistics would gain if the courier fee increase of 170 KRW per parcel implemented last April and an additional 100 KRW increase planned for January next year are applied. The union argues that the company currently supports only 51.6 KRW out of the 170 KRW increase, making the distribution unfair. Previously, the union had estimated the excess profits from the courier fee increase at 350 billion KRW but revised it to 300 billion KRW just one day before the general strike.

In response, CJ Logistics emphasized that the union's self-calculated standards are ambiguous and that the increase amount is also incorrect. According to the company, the average courier fee increase last April was not 170 KRW but 140 KRW. This figure was calculated after individual negotiations on the increase with corporate clients and then averaging the overall amount.

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