<Anchor> The
labor and management of the delivery service have tentatively agreed to completely exclude delivery drivers from sorting and reduce working hours to 60 hours a week from January next year. However, the fire still remains as the post office, which accounts for more than half of the courier union, has decided to discuss the issue again.
Reporter Jeong Da-eun reports.
<Reporter> The main
point of the tentative agreement reached by the labor union, the government, the agency association and the shipper is that from January next year, delivery drivers will be completely excluded from the work of sorting.
Exceptionally, if the courier participates in sorting, we have decided to reduce the amount of delivery and pay for it.
Starting in September, Lotte Global Logistics and Hanjin decided to add 1,000 more sorting workers each.
In addition, we decided to make an effort to ensure that the working hours of delivery drivers do not exceed 12 hours a day, 60 hours a week.
However, the two weeks before Lunar New Year and Chuseok were recognized as exceptions.
Measures to preserve income in response to the reduction in the quantity requested by the union were omitted from the agreement.
[Jin Kyung-ho / Courier Union Chairman: This is a very unfortunate clause. In fact, the main demand of the union was to preserve the income as the quantity decreased... The increase in fees could not be achieved.] We
estimated the increase in courier costs due to the additional input of sorting personnel to be 170 won, and decided to distribute them rationally to courier companies, agencies, and delivery drivers.
However, a final agreement could not be reached because the difference in classification between the post office delivery union, which accounts for more than half of the delivery union, and the Postal Service Headquarters could not be resolved.
The courier union is scheduled to end the strike today (17th), but it is expected that it will take some time for delivery to fully normalize.