Unionized members at Kakao stage first-ever strike

The Korea Times

Unionized members at Kakao stage first-ever strike

Unionized members at Kakao Corp. staged their first walkout in the company's history Wednesday, demanding higher bonuses and profit sharing. The walkout and a rally took place near the messenger app operator's headquarters in Pangyo, south of Seoul, from 10 a.m., with around 1,500 members from five units of Kakao, including its headquarters, Kakao Pay and Kakao Enterprise, participating, according to the union. Members marched around the company's headquarters alongside other IT companies in the area, holding white umbrellas. The strike is expected to last around four hours until 3 p.m. The move comes after the union and management failed to narrow differences in two rounds of wage talks mediated by the government last month. Unionized members are reportedly demanding 13 to 14 percent of last year's operating profits as performance-based incentives. It is also seeking to redesign the compensation structure to include restricted stock units, a type of equity compensation, in the official bonus pool. The members have argued in a statement released earlier that the management is offering exce

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