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• Strike hits two SKorean auto firms

  - 2007-07-15

  SEOUL AFP — Workers at two South Korean auto companies staged labour stoppages Monday in support of a pay claim, company officials said. GM Daewoo Auto and Technology's 9,915-member union launched a two-hour strike from mid-morning, spokesman Lee Jong-Yong said, adding night-shift workers would also down tools for two...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, General Motors Corp., Kia Motors Corp., Manufacturing, salary, worker

• Hyundai Motor workers on strike against FTA

  - 2007-06-28

  SEOUL AFP — Workers at South Korea's top automaker Hyundai Motor launched a partial strike Thursday to join an industry-wide walkout in protest at a free trade agreement FTA with the United States. The four-hour strike crippled Hyundai's car production from 1:00 pm (0400 GMT). Unionised workers at its...

  Tags: Government, Hyundai, Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motors Corp., strike, walkout, worker

• Car Lot

  - 2007-03-12

  Kia, Hyundai, Volvo Drive Local Job Gains; Ford Off Overall, Mitsubishi Flat Jobs at the Orange County operations of big automakers ticked up a bit in the past 12 months, despite Ford Motor Co.'s woes and Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc.'s sluggish sales. The eight largest automakers with...

  Tags: car, Construction, Ford Motor Co., Hyundai, Jaguar, Kia Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Mitsubishi Corp., SALES, Volvo, worker

• Auto sector sees growth and retreat.(buyouts to its manufacturing workers)(Brief article)

  - 2006-04-01

  In the same month as General Motors announced it would offer buyouts to its manufacturing workers as part of its economic restructuring plan, another international automaker announced plans to expand operations in the U.S. GM's plan to offer early retirement buyout packages...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., Kia Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Strategy, U.S., worker

• Workers step up strike at Hyundai Motors

  - 2005-08-31

  SEOUL AFP — Workers have stepped up strike action at South Korea's largest automaker, Hyundai Motor, shutting down production and preparing for a mass rally, company officials said. More than 20,000 workers downed tools on the day shift for four hours until noon (GMT 03:00) and 10,000 night shift...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Hyundai, Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motors Corp., worker

• HYUNDAI, KIA WORKERS STEP UP STRIKE IN S. KOREA.

  - 2004-06-29

  SEOUL, June 29 Asia Pulse - Some 40,000 Hyundai Motor Co. workers expanded their partial strike to a full day protest today, forcing South Korea's largest automaker to halt production completely. SEOUL, June 29 Asia Pulse - Some 40,000 Hyundai Motor Co. workers expanded...

  Tags: Hyundai, Kia Motors Corp., worker

• KIA MOTORS UNION VOTES ON STRIKE, SSANGYONG MOTOR UNION TO FOLLOW.

  - 2004-06-25

  SEOUL, June 25 Asia Pulse - Unionized workers at Kia Motors Corp. (KSE:000270), an affiliate of Hyundai Motor (KSE:005380), held a vote Friday morning on whether to go on strike to pressure management to raise wages. Results, however, have yet to come out, the labor union said. ...

  Tags: Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motors Corp., Seoul, worker

• KIA WANTS WORKERS TO RAISE PRODUCTIVITY BEFORE GRANTING PAY RISE.

  - 2003-08-11

  SEOUL, Aug 11 Asia Pulse - Strike-ravaged Kia Motors Corp. (KSE:00270) urged its workers today to increase productivity by at least five percent before demanding a pay raise and better working conditions. SEOUL, Aug 11 Asia Pulse - Strike-ravaged Kia Motors Corp. (KSE:00270) urged...

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• Detroit Free Press Michigan Memo Column.

  - 1999-01-14

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 15 -- FORD MOTOR CO. will take $630 million -- or 51 cents a share -- in fourth-quarter after-tax charges for a loss on the sale of its stake in Kia Motors Corp., early retirement programs and a new joint...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Kia Motors Corp., worker