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The key issue of this strike is the safe fare system.

The Cargo Solidarity argues that since it is at the level of the minimum wage after subtracting this and that, it should be raised and the number of items to which the safe fare system is applied should be increased, but the government opposes it, saying it is not a small amount of money.



Reporter Jung Joon-ho pointed out this part.



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5.27 million won per month versus 3.63 million won, the net income of drivers who drive trucks that transport cars.



Many of them were investigated by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, and the small ones by the Cargo Workers' Union.



There is a difference of 1.64 million won for doing the same work.



There is also a difference of 1.16 million won for grain feed cargo drivers.



Both are the same in terms of deducting fuel costs, insurance premiums, road charges, and tolls from sales, but the big difference comes from the 'installment payment' of the vehicle.



The Cargo Solidarity explains that since installments occur every month, the amount minus the value of the used car from the car price should be subtracted as an expense.



Still, it is pointed out that the amount is not small, and the cargo union insists that working hours should also be taken into account.



According to the Cargo Solidarity Survey, which says they work 26 days a month, an average of 14 hours a day, the hourly rate is just over 10,000 won.



[15 years of grain and feed transporter: If you start at 4:00 in the morning and work 16 or 17 hours, if you calculate it, we think that it is not even the minimum wage.]



Like the minimum wage, the safe fare is decided by a committee of drivers, shippers, and public interest representatives.



The government argues that the evidence that accidents have decreased is weak, but that expanding the safe fare system will increase the burden on companies and consequently increase product prices, which will be passed on to consumers.



However, the Korea Cargo Federation refutes that the safe fare system reduces unreasonable driving such as speeding and overloading, thereby reducing social costs such as human casualties and handling accidents.



In the United States, studies have shown that the probability of an accident decreases by 34% for every 10% increase in fare per mile.



Two years after the implementation of the system, the labor world and the government argue that it is effective or not, but rather than just confronting each other, we need to start looking for points of contact one by one from verifying the effectiveness to the level of cost that our society can endure.



(Video editing: Park Jeong-sam)



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