South Korea’s Metal Workers Are Trying to Bargain Before Robots Make the Bargain Smaller.
Korea has the highest density of industrial robots in the world, and its largest industrial union just said the bargaining process around adding more of them has broken down. South Korea runs roughly 1,000 to 1,200 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers, according to the International Federation of Robotics, and the Korean Metal Workers’ Union…