Pyeongtaek Labor-Management-Civic-Government Council Announces 'Joint Declaration' to Overcome COVID-19

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] The Pyeongtaek Labor-Management-Civic-Government Council held a council meeting on the 22nd at the City Hall Comprehensive Situation Room and announced a "Labor-Management-Civic-Government Joint Declaration" to overcome the COVID-19 crisis.

Attending the meeting were Chairman Jeong Jang-seon, Mayor of Pyeongtaek, Song Young-bum, Chairman of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Pyeongtaek Regional Branch, Lee Bo-young, Chairman of the Pyeongtaek Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Yu Byung-gyu, Representative of Law Firm Donghang, and Lee Jung-in, Director of the Pyeongtaek Branch of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

Through the joint declaration, members of the Labor-Management-Civic-Government Council pledged to implement various practical measures to overcome the economic crisis, including protecting workers' employment and strengthening business stability and competitiveness through overcoming the COVID-19 crisis and establishing an employment safety net by supporting the employment blind spot, thereby revitalizing the local economy.

Additionally, the Pyeongtaek Labor-Management-Civic-Government Council has been operating its secretariat since January this year and is promoting various regional labor-management-civic-government cooperation activation projects, including on-site labor law education, industrial accident prevention education, youth employment environment improvement promotion projects, and foreign-invested enterprise labor-management cooperation workshops and labor and employment policy networking projects.

Mayor Jeong Jang-seon stated, "Please gather the strength and wisdom of labor, management, civic society, and government in Pyeongtaek to overcome the COVID-19 crisis," and added, "The city will actively support workers in the employment blind spot and business management stability, and will do our best for local employment stability and economic revitalization."