Korea's biggest industrial union recruits migrant workers amid shipbuilding boom

“A major industrial labor union has launched a membership drive targeting migrant workers at Hyundai’s shipbuilding complex in Ulsan, seeking to expand its reach to tens of thousands of subcontracted workers — many of them foreign — as members prepare for new talks with the company. A senior official at the Korean Metal Workers’ Union (KMWU) said the campaign’s goal is to integrate migrants, a rapidly increasing demographic in shipyards, into the union so they can be covered by collective bargaining and formal representation. “In many workplaces, especially in the shipyards, the number of migrant workers is growing rapidly, and they are often forced to endure poor conditions while left in a blind spot in terms of their rights,” the official told The Korea Times Monday. The three-day campaign includes early morning leaflet distribution at the shipyard gates, multilingual leaflets and QR code surveys, and trucks broadcasting messages in different languages, including English, Chinese, Nepali and Vietnamese, aimed specifically at migrant workers. He said the recent passage of a

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