{"id":236,"date":"2021-09-01T11:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2021-09-01T11:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:05:20","slug":"hmm-maritime-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"HMM Maritime Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While union leaders representing HMM\u2019s seafarers and office staff continue to negotiate with the management for higher salary increments, the seafarers are going ahead with a picket protest with Busan. At 14:00 Seoul time today (1 September), Kim Jin-man and Jang Jong-geum, the heads of the unions representing shore-based employees and seafarers respectively, began talks with HMM president Bae Jae-hoon.<\/span><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On 22 August, the seafaring union held a vote to decide on a strike and of the 450 members who came, more than 92% chose to strike. HMM\u2019s Swiss-Italian rival, MSC is attempting to poach the South Korean carrier\u2019s crew with salaries that are 2.5 times what the latter is paying, and 317 of HMM\u2019s seafarers have submitted their resignation letters to the union.<\/span><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Desperate to avoid a strike that could cause US$580 million in losses, HMM\u2019s management pressed the seafaring union to resume discussions. The strike was initially set for 25 August and the mass resignation was postponed while the talks continued.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While union leaders representing HMM\u2019s seafarers and office staff continue to negotiate with the management for higher salary increments, the seafarers are going ahead with a picket protest with Busan. At 14:00 Seoul time today (1 September), Kim Jin-man and Jang Jong-geum, the heads of the unions representing shore-based employees and seafarers respectively, began talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draydepot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}