One-hundred-nineteen fired workers at South Korean automaker SsangYong Motor are to be *rehired,... ending a bitter legal battle that has raged on for nine years.<br /> The automaker's management and labor agreed on Friday.... to gradually rehire the fired workers by the first half of 2019. <br />SsangYong Motor has been locked in a protracted dispute with the workers.... who were let go in 2009 after the company was placed under court receivership. <br />At that time,... around nine-hundred workers launched a strike at SsangYong's Pyeongtaek plant,.... and those who refused offers of unpaid leave or voluntary retirement were later fired. <br />
