The strike that continued for a second day ended as management and labor at Seoul city buses reached a dramatic agreement on wages. With the agreement, Seoul buses will operate normally starting with the first runs on the 15th.
According to the Seoul City Bus Labor Union and the Seoul City Bus Transportation Business Association on the 15th, starting at 3 p.m. on the 14th, both sides held a second post-mediation meeting on the collective wage agreement at the special mediation committee of the Seoul Regional Labor Relations Commission in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.
The negotiation time was initially set until 9 p.m., but after more than nine hours of marathon talks, mediators agreed on a proposal at 11:57 p.m.
With the agreement, the strike that was expected to resume from 4 a.m. that day was completely halted. The two sides had negotiated for more than a year over wage increases but failed to narrow differences until the end and launched a strike on the 13th. As of this month, about 7,000 city buses operate in Seoul (7,018 authorized).