CJ Logistics "Unjustified Strike Must Stop... Support for Dialogue Between Agencies and Union"

On the 28th, delivery vehicles were parked at the CJ Logistics Seongnam Sujeong Terminal in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, as CJ Logistics delivery workers affiliated with the National Courier Workers' Union launched an indefinite general strike to urge the implementation of a social agreement to prevent death from overwork. Among the approximately 20,000 CJ Logistics delivery workers, about 2,500 are union members, and around 1,700 union members with bargaining rights are expected to participate in this strike. They claim that CJ Logistics raised fees under the social agreement to prevent overwork deaths among delivery workers but did not use the additional profits to improve working conditions, demanding the withdrawal of the supplementary agreement to the standard contract, among other things. Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Dongwoo Lee] CJ Logistics stated on the 18th regarding the total strike by the delivery workers' union, "Stopping the unjustified strike and striving to normalize delivery services is the way to repay the support of the public who back the social agreement."

In a statement released that morning, CJ Logistics said, "The company is making efforts to establish a reasonable relationship based on laws and principles at the delivery sites and will support smooth dialogue between the agency association and the union."

The company explained, "So far, the company has expressed regret over the union's baseless claims and malicious slander and has demanded an immediate halt to the strike. The union is not only disparaging the company's efforts to implement the agreement but also escalating the level of conflict regardless of the public's suffering."

Furthermore, it added, "If such conflict continues, the public will inevitably question whether the union's true demands are the implementation of the social agreement and prevention of overwork. Stopping the unjustified strike and striving to normalize delivery services is the way to repay the support of the public who back the social agreement."

CJ Logistics emphasized, "We will manage the field according to laws and principles to prevent the spread of damage to general delivery workers and agencies caused by illegal strikes by union members without bargaining rights or obstruction of lawful substitute deliveries."

Finally, the company appealed, "As delivery, which has grown into an essential infrastructure industry for society and people's lives, faces disruptions, delaying the overcoming of COVID-19, we earnestly request the labor union to immediately stop the strike and promptly return to work."

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