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<img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R6c77TvB3bE/hq720.jpg" alt="1 year ago" style="max-width:400px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;"><p class="mol-para-with-font">SEOUL, Nov 29 (Reuters) - South Korea's government will decide on Tuesday whether to take the unprecedented step of invoking tough strike-busting laws to end
a six-day stoppage by truck drivers which is hurting the
economy, the presidential office said.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">President Yoon Suk-yeol will preside over a cabinet meeting to discuss issuing a start-work
order after the government failed to reach a deal with unions in talks on Monday.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The strike - the second
in less than six months by truckers demanding minimum pay - is disrupting industrial
activity at a time when Asia's fourth-largest economy expects a slump in growth to 1.7% next year.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Yoon's office said cabinet would
consider becoming the first South Korean administration to issue an order to force striking transport workers back to their jobs.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Failure to comply can lead
to punishments such as cancellation of licences
and three years in jail, or a fine of up to 30 million won ($22,550).</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">If approved, the order would be
executed without delay, Transport Minister Won Hee-ryong said.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Strike
organiser Cargo Truckers Solidarity Union (CTSU) called
the start-work order "undemocratic and anti-constitutional", and evidence of the government's unwillingness to
engage in dialogue.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">"The CTSU will not yield to this pan-government crackdown," the
union said in a statement on late Monday.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The union plans to hold 16 rallies nationwide on Tuesday, it added.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The government is
unwilling to expand a minimum pay system beyond a further
three years, while the union says it should be permanent
and wider in scope.

<b>(Reporting by Joyce Lee; Editing by Stephen Coates)</p></div></b>
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