Internal corruption of the POSCO union executive… Golf allegations raised amid difficult wage negotiations

13 executive union members who served as general managers and deputy managers in the POSCO union executive department issued a statement on this day, saying, "The union chairman met privately with the head of the company's management support division, the company's head of negotiation, to play golf a few days before the union announced the breakdown of wage negotiations last July, and the chairman also acknowledged this. The union must reject the company's attempts to dominate and intervene and operate independently, but the current executive branch does not do that, so all executives will resign on the 21st when the second partial strike ends." revealed.

They emphasized, "With repeated private meetings with the company's executives and employees, we cannot help but wonder whether the union can properly stand up to the company," and added, "We have raised issues internally numerous times, but we would like to admit that we cannot go forward with the executive branch now."

He continued, “The chairman explained that it was an activity of the graduate school of labor graduate school that he attended with the head of the management support department, but there is a situation where the former head of the Pohang Steel Partner Company Association and others were present,” and insisted, “Please reveal the circumstances surrounding the golf and who was present, disclose the details of other private meetings and payment details, and reveal whether anything was agreed upon with the company at the golf meeting.”

They urged, "Please disclose how the information on the factory subject to the first partial strike was passed on to the company, when the union became aware of it, whether an investigation was conducted, and the results."