Una preocupación menos para los cargadores. Finalmente los sindicatos que agrupan a las tripulaciones y al personal de tierra, han llegado a un acuerdo con la empresa. Recordarán los lectores que una mayoría de tripulantes habían amenazado con aceptar una oferta de MSC que busca oficiales y tripulantes para ULCVs (Ultra Large Container Vessel), con anuncios en la prensa coreana, ofreciendo salarios cuasi estratósfericos a comparar con los que cobran los tripulantes de los buques de HMM.
El acuerdo alcanzado el lunes, día 6 (en el límite) contempla un aumento salarial y un bonus para los cerca de 400 tripulantes de los buques de HMM, con lo que, de momento, se soslaya una posibilidad cierta de agravamiento de las condiciones del transporte de contenedores, con la mas que posible, antes del lunes, paralización de los portacontenedores de HMM en el puerto de Busán… Afortunadamente.
South Korean shipping firm HMM has reached an agreement with labour unions about wage negotiations, helping to avert a potential logistics disruption.
The settlement includes a 7.9% wage increase alongside a bonus equivalent to 650% of the monthly wage, the company said in a statement.
“After productive talks and discussions that lasted for about 18 hours, both the management and the unions could reach an amicable resolution based on goodwill and mutual understanding,” it said.
“To date, there have not been any disruptions to our service routes and vessel operations.”
HMM’s management and its unions had been in locked in the wage dispute since June.
Unionised seafarers and shore-side workers claimed they were denied a share of the benefits from the latest container shipping boom, were underpaid by HMM and had their wages frozen for up to eight years.
About 92% of 400 unionised seafarers voted on August 23 in favour of staging the first-ever strike in the company’s history. They had planned to collectively submit their resignations unless a deal was reached.
“The agreement is not at a level that the union members are satisfied with, but we could not wait to see the growing concern about the logistics crisis,” said Kim Jin-man, leader of the shore staff union, according to the local media.
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