Hanwha Ocean Geoje Complex in Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province. /Courtesy of News1
Hanwha Ocean has begun procedures to conduct collective bargaining with the subcontractors’ union. This move follows the court’s decision that day to dismiss the application to suspend execution of a Central Labor Relations Commission ruling that Hanwha Ocean filed in July.
According to Hanwha Ocean on the 2nd, at 3 p.m. that day Hanwha Ocean posted a “public notice confirming the unions requesting bargaining” on the in-house bulletin board of its Geoje establishment.
The public notice confirming the unions requesting bargaining is a procedure to determine which unions will participate in bargaining when multiple unions have requested talks with the company, and it is carried out before the main bargaining begins. The notice period runs until the 7th of this month.
Regarding this, Hanwha Ocean said, “Hanwha Ocean has issued the bargaining notice,” adding, “We plan to proceed with bargaining as quickly as possible.”
The day before, after the Seoul Administrative Court dismissed Hanwha Ocean’s application to suspend execution related to the Central Labor Relations Commission’s reexamination ruling, Hanwha Ocean had said, “We will bargain in accordance with the court’s decision.”
The Gyeongnam Regional Labor Relations Commission decided in April that Hanwha Ocean should issue a public notice confirming the unions requesting bargaining that includes both the Metal Workers’ Union Geoje-Tongyeong-Goseong Shipbuilding Subcontractors Branch and the Welliv Branch. Hanwha Ocean, on the other hand, has maintained that legal judgment is needed to recognize employer status with respect to the Welliv Branch.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) Metal Workers’ Union issued a statement that day, saying, “Hanwha Ocean must immediately carry out bargaining with the parent company.”
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