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  • Swift Strike: Vietnamese Gang Cracks Motorbike Theft in 5 Seconds Flat

    Swift Strike: Vietnamese Gang Cracks Motorbike Theft in 5 Seconds Flat

    In central Vietnam, law enforcement authorities have successfully brought down a criminal ring suspected of swiftly stealing motorbikes across the provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh. The official inquiry began on Friday, led by Nghe An police, focusing on Truong Hoang Hiep, 18 years old, believed to be the gang’s ringleader, along with five other suspects. The charges faced by the alleged criminals are of “property theft.”

    Method of Operation

    The police claim that the alleged thieves, under Hiep’s leadership, specifically targeted residences and motorbike shops situated in both provinces. Their modus operandi was remarkably fast, involving a technique where they would cut into the motorbike’s wiring to hot-wire it. This method enabled them to start the ignition and escape with the motorbike within an estimated five seconds.

    Their next step would be to conceal the license plates using tape, post which they would trade the stolen motorbikes for cash. As per the police, the criminals usually traveled together, wearing face masks and sun-protection clothing to hide their identities while on the lookout for potential victims.

    Investigation and Arrest

    Reports from victims ultimately led the Nghe An police to launch investigations. By mid-November, the officers had successfully tracked the suspects’ movements, which resulted in their arrest. All the suspects have reportedly confessed to their crimes.

    The police authorities have accused the gang of committing 13 motorbike thefts from May until their eventual capture. The estimated total value of the stolen motorbikes from both provinces is said to be around VND230 million (US$9,600).

    Questions & Answers

    Who are the suspects in the motorbike theft case?
    The chief suspect is Truong Hoang Hiep, an 18-year-old who is believed to be the leader of the gang. There are five other individuals involved in the case.

    How did the gang execute the thefts?
    The gang employed a quick technique to hot-wire the motorbikes by cutting into the wiring. They would then ride away with the motorbike, cover the license plates with tape, and sell the stolen vehicles for cash.

    What led to the gang’s capture?
    Reports from victims led the Nghe An police to initiate investigations. By successfully tracing the suspects’ movements, the officers were able to arrest them. All suspects have confessed to their crimes.

  • Kia Workers Accept Wage Deal Without Strike For The First Time In A Decade

    Kia Workers Accept Wage Deal Without Strike For The First Time In A Decade

    Workers’ Union at Kia Motors has voted to accept the company’s wage proposals without a strike for the first time in 10 years. According to a report from IANS, the carmaker said that 68 percent of 26,945 workers have voted in favor of the wage, which includes an increase of 75,000 won ($64.30) in monthly basic pay, two months of wages in performance-based pay, and cash bonuses worth 5.8 million won. The report also mentioned that over 1,600 out of the 28,604-member union abstained.

    The company has rejected the Union’s demand to extend the retirement age from current 60 to 65, however, the company reinstated fired workers.

    The automaker and the workers’ Union reached a tentative wage deal early this week without staging a strike amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first time that Kia will sign a wage deal without industrial actions. They will sign the wage agreement on Monday.

    Last month, Hyundai Motor Company and its union signed this year’s wage deal without strikes for the third consecutive year.

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  • Farmers staff go on Strike

    Farmers staff go on Strike

    Employees of local department store chain Farmers have walked off the job in the first of a series of planned actions to combat the retailer’s reliance on an “unfair performance pay system”, according to First Union.

    Workers gave Farmers an ‘F’ for payment issues, including the performance pay system that keeps wages down, as well as Farmers’ refusal to pay a living wage.

    Staff will be wearing an “F for Farmers: Farmers Workers Deserve a Living Wage” sticker on their shirt at 40 of the retail chain’s 56 stores, according to NZ Herald.

    “Eighty per cent of Farmers workers are on less than the Living Wage,” First Union retail, finance and commerce divisional secretary Tali Williams said, calling the business’s pay rates an embarrassment.

    “Minimum wages are not enough to live on. Farmers is well behind other major retailers with its pay rates.

    “What’s worse is that Farmers is one of the only major retailers with a performance pay system that actively keeps wages down.”

    Farmers workers typically start on around the minimum wage ($16.50 an hour), but the retailer’s pay scale tends to end at around $17.50 with any further pay increases tied to staff performance.

    This is not the first strike the retailer has faced in recent memory, with similar actions taken by staff last year.

    First Union’s ‘Worth It’ campaign, started in April 2018, aims to encourage business to pay a living wage of $20.55 per hour to employees to assist the almost 20 per cent of New Zealand workers who are at risk in insecure or low-paid jobs.

    “Farmers needs to listen to their own family values and return to the bargaining table with a Living Wage for workers and their families,” Williams said.

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  • British Airways will use Qatar planes during cabin crew strike

    British Airways will use Qatar planes during cabin crew strike

    British Airways will use Qatar Airways planes and crew to fly all its passengers to their destinations during a planned two-week strike by some cabin crew, Willie Walsh, head of BA’s parent company, said on Thursday.

    The strike by BA’s mixed fleet cabin crew – those who work on both long and short-haul flights – is due to begin on Saturday. BA had already applied to Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to use nine Qatar-registered Airbus A320 or A321s betweenJuly 1 and July 16 and Walsh, CEO of International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), said the plan would go ahead.

    “I’ll be pleased to say that those airplanes will fly and all of the British Airways passengers who are booked to fly with us over the next couple of weeks will be flying,” Walsh told reporters in Brussels on Thursday when asked if the application to use the planes had been successful.

    Members of the mixed fleet crew are engaged in a long-running dispute with BA about pay. The forthcoming strike is over sanctions on union members involved in previous industrial action.British Airways had previously guaranteed that all customers would reach their destinations, although some flights will be merged.

    The CAA would not confirm that BAs application had been approved and said it was still processing it.

    “Under European regulations specific approval is required for an EU airline, such as British Airways, to wet lease aircraft from an airline based outside of Europe,” a spokesman for the CAA said in a statement.

    “The UK Department for Transport will approve or reject the application taking into account advice from the Civil Aviation Authority.”

    A “wet-leasing” deal would mean that BA pays Qatar to use its aircraft and crew for the two-week period.

    The deal could help Qatar make more use of its planes after its operations were disrupted by a boycott from four Arab nations, forcing it to seek out other destinations on which to use its planes.

    Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties with Qatar on June 5 in the worst diplomatic crisis in the region in years.

    BA and Qatar Airways have close ties. Both are partners in the OneWorld alliance and code share on certain flights, while the Doha-based carrier owns a 20 percent stake in BA parent
    International Airlines Group.

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