The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions' Public Transport Workers' Cargo Solidarity (Cargo Solidarity) and the government sat face to face five days after the general strike, but only confirmed differences in their positions.
Today (28th), negotiations between the government and the cargo union held at the Government Complex Sejong at 2:00 noon ended 1 hour and 50 minutes after they started.
On the government side, Vice Minister Eo Myeong-so of the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, Koo Heon-sang, the logistics policy officer of the Ministry of Land, and Transport, and Kim Tae-young, senior vice chairman of the cargo union, attended the ceremony.
Vice Minister Eo Myung-so said, "We extended the safe freight rate system for container and bulk cement trailer (BCT) items by three years, and expressed our position that it would be difficult to accept the expansion of other items." requested a quick return."
The cargo union demanded the withdrawal of the business start order, the abolition of the safe fare system sunset system, and the expansion of items, and the conversation between the two sides ran parallel.
The Cargo Solidarity said, "We said that we would take a forward-looking stance on each request to reach an agreement, but the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport only replied that there was nothing the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport could answer."
The government and the cargo union decided to meet again at the Sejong Government Complex on the 30th to continue the conversation, and the cargo union demanded that Minister Won Hee-ryong of Land, Infrastructure and Transport directly engage in dialogue.
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