Hyundai Motor workers vote to strike

SEOUL (AFP) — Workers at South Korea's largest carmaker Hyundai Motor have voted to go on strike this week, a company spokesman said Saturday.

Almost two-thirds of Hyundai's 44,800-strong union voted to authorise a strike as early as Tuesday after 50 days of negotiations broke down.

The union is seeking an 8.9 percent pay increase, an extension of the retirement age from 58 to 60 and a halt to the allocation of work to overseas plants -- demands that management say are "unacceptable."

Hyundai Motor president Yoon Yeo-Cheol has urged workers to drop ...