With disruptions expected during rush hours, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said the subway will run for extended hours with additional trains put into service.
The negotiations between the Seoul Bus Labor Union, which represents drivers serving 97 per cent of bus operations, and their employers failed after the union demand for a 12.7 per cent hike in hourly wages was dismissed as "excessive," Yonhap reported. "We'll make an all-out effort to smoothly reach an agreement between the union and the management soon," Yoon Jong-jang, a head of the Transportation Planning Bureau at the Seoul Metropolitan Government, said in a statement.
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