8,700 Korean USFK Employees Could Be Placed on Leave If Cost Sharing Deal Not Reached
It seems to me that if there is no money designated to pay the employees than of course they will need to be put on leave:
The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) has sent a letter to the union of its Korean employees stating that it will place them on unpaid leave from mid-April 2019, if the ongoing defense-cost sharing negotiations between Seoul and Washington are not settled by the end of this year.
Korea Times
In the letter to USFK Korean Employees Union President Choe Ung-sik, USFK headquarters’ Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Michael Minihan said, “Unfortunately, unless the ongoing SMA negotiations can be completed in a timely manner to avoid a lapse in labor funding, we will be required to issue a general furlough notice.”
“Unless a new SMA is agreed to, it will be necessary to implement the furlough effective April 15, 2019,” Minihan said.
This is viewed by some observers as an attempt to gain concessions from Korea as the negotiations over sharing the cost of stationing American troops here are making little headway. They say that the U.S. is “taking Korean workers hostage” to demand a bigger payment from the government.
Time has been running out in the negotiations in relation to the Special Measures Agreement (SMA), a five-year defense contract between Seoul and Washington. It will expire Dec. 31.
The notice may possibly affect as many as 8,700 whose wages are co-paid by both the government and the USFK.
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This is exactly what Commie Moon Pie wants to stir up even more anti-American sentiment. Evil America is throwing hard working Koreans out of work, but our good buddy Kim Fatty the Third would never do that. I lost count of the lies in that last sentence.
If they don’t want us there, we should leave.
Of course, at that time defense of Seoul will no longer be one of America’s priorities…
Moon can find the money as soon as he wants to…
Commie Moon wouldn’t dare not pay for USFK. The KOSPI and Korean economy would go further into the shitter than it already is.
J6, this is exactly why he would not pay….he wants to ruin South Korea (well on his way to doing it…)
I guess all Commie Moon’s assets are in gold bars or Swiss bank accounts then.
This should be made use of by turning it into a yearly exercise; call it Broken Choseon. It will highlight the stupidity incurred when you let strat-ops be overly dependent upon local communities and resources just to grease palms. No local nationals are permitted to act on behalf of USFK interests nor are any allowed on an installation during Broken Choseon. Units are forbidden from going into tactical mode to avoid the suck-fest that is Broken Choseon.