No­vo Nordisk work­ers in Ko­rea protest af­ter break­down in salary and perks ne­go­ti­a­tions — re­port

While in­fla­tion is up glob­al­ly, a few phar­mas have been get­ting hit by union com­plaints over pay rais­es that are be­low in­fla­tion rates. Now an­oth­er Big Phar­ma is fac­ing a po­ten­tial strike.

As first re­port­ed by Ko­rea Bio­med­ical Re­view, 100 union­ized No­vo Nordisk Ko­rea work­ers gath­ered in front of the com­pa­ny’s head­quar­ters in Seoul ear­li­er Thurs­day to protest a failed end to wage ne­go­ti­a­tions and cuts to some em­ploy­ee in­cen­tives. The union has a to­tal of 118 No­vo Nordisk em­ploy­ees.

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