Metal Workers' Union POSCO Branch "Exclusion of special promotions for recently hired employees is discrimination."

(Pohang = Yonhap News) Reporter Dae-seong Son = The POSCO branch of the Pohang branch of the Korean Metal Workers' Union of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the POSCO branch of the Gwangju-Jeonnam branch issued a statement on the 4th and urged, "POSCO should correct the exclusion of workers hired after April 10 of this year from special rank 3."

The POSCO branch said, "POSCO and the Federation of Korean Trade Unions and the POSCO Workers' Union have tentatively agreed to wage negotiations this year, and have decided that the special promotion level 3 salary will only apply to those in office as of April 10 of this year. According to this standard, workers hired after that are excluded from the special promotion target."

This group argued, “Workers doing the same work at the same site should not be excluded from special promotions just because their employment date is a few days or months later than the standard date,” and added, “POSCO should apply special promotion level 3 pay to all workers, and the POSCO union, as the representative bargaining union, should transparently disclose the circumstances of their exclusion.”