The government’s right to order trucks to start operating is enshrined in the rules, in case trucking employees refuse to do transport duty “without good cause.” This is the first time the Korean government has issued such an order since 2004, when the Trucking Transport Business Act went into effect. Those not participating in the walkout have been blocked from transporting materials or goods, and, in some cases, have had metal beads shot at them, according to Yoon. “Taking the livelihoods of ordinary people and the national economy hostage to look out for their own needs is not justifiable.” “The government hereby issues an order to force cement truckers who refuse their duty to transport to return to the workplace to curb the spread of the economic crisis,” Yoon said, reiterating Seoul’s rule-of-law approach. Yoon said at the meeting that construction sites and factories in Asia’s fourth-largest economy are grinding to a halt due to the strike, and involve criminal acts, such as union members’ assaults on nonparticipants.
Those who refuse to comply with the order will be subject to a suspension of their trucker license, as well as criminal punishment of up to three years of jail or up to a 30 million won ($22,600) fine. The order came into effect immediately after the Cabinet meeting presided by President Yoon Suk-yeol for cement truckers took place in the morning.
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SEOUL – The government on Tuesday ordered some 2,500 cement cargo truck drivers at over 200 companies across the nation to stop their strike and return to work on the sixth day of the walkout, taking an unprecedented move as the supply crisis deepens.
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