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E.Land/Homever Capitalists: The Strike

is a Result of "Devil's Temptation"!!

It seems that after the (first???) massive wave of STATE TERROR against the striking workers of E.Land/Homever is over, the capitalists and their collaborators (for example in the S.K. media) declared a psychological warfare/"PSYCHO TERROR" against the labour union (KCTU) activists.

Korea Times reported today that:
 

"The nation’s major retailer E-Land Group is suspected of sending hateful e-mail to its unionized workers who are in protest over the management’s massive layoff of non-regular workers. In the e-mail, the writer compared its striking workers’ protest to an action caused by devil’s temptation."

And it continued:

According to the company’s labor union Sunday, hundreds of unionized workers received the e-mail which was sent under the name of Kim Young-soo, the president of E-Land World, an affiliate of the group.

In the e-mail, Kim asked workers to pray three times a day, so that ``striking workers repent before the God and never get tempted by devil again.’’ The writer also said that they should pray so that ``the God can make union leaders get arrested’’ and ``workers do their best as faithful servants who do not complain about their salaries.’’..

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2007/07/117_7024.html

And the reactionary Chosun Ilbo agitated today extreme aggressive:

The KCTU Hurts Workers' Interests

 
In retaliation against the use of police to break up an illegal sit-in by contract workers at discount retailer E-Land, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions has announced a full-blown battle against the company, including a campaign to boycott its products. On Saturday, the KCTU held protest rallies in front of E-Land stores across the country, demanding the release of union members who have been arrested. The KCTU vowed to continue its boycott until July 27. The New Core outlet branch in southern Seoul as well as 29 stores across the country had to halt business for one to two hours. Because the KCTU had interfered in the labor dispute at E-Land, an amicable solution between management and the non-regular workers has become impossible and police had to intervene.

 
During earlier talks, management at E-Land had accepted a majority of the union’s demands, including an end to outsourcing cashiers, while rehiring those who had already been reclassified as being employed by outsourcing companies. But the union refused to back off even one step from its original demands, including the rehiring of outsourced workers within a month. That’s because the KCTU’s objective has nothing to do with improving the working conditions of E-Land non-regular workers. The KCTU just wanted to use the E-Land situation as a rallying cause for its fight for all non-regular workers.

Just like during the GS Caltex strike in 2004 or the POSCO Engineering & Construction strike in 2006, whenever the KCTU interferes, scores of workers lose their jobs, many of them end up being jailed, and their companies are hit hard as well. In other words, everyone loses whenever the KCTU steps in.

Launching its boycott of E-Land products, the KCTU said it would be a fight to see whether the company closes down or the KCTU lowers its banner once and for all. If E-Land closes down, both regular and non-regular workers will lose their jobs. Yet the KCTU has vowed to fight until the company goes broke and it’s doing it in the name of E-Land workers. If the unionists of E-Land want to live, they will have no choice but to turn their backs on the KCTU.

 
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200707/200707230024.html

But while the capitalist class is trying to smash the labour union's activities, there's also an international solidarity! For example by

☞ E.Land workers in Korea
fight for their jobs and families

Related:

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU).. launched campaign to boycott E-Land products in protest against management’s layoff of non-regular workers and the government’s crackdown on striking workers

7.21, the first day of boycott against E.Land

  
   ``E-Land, which is anti-labor and anti-social, has no longer the right to operate as a company. We will continue our full-fledged campaign to boycott the company’s products to force it out from the market,’’ said Lee Sok-haeng, chairman of the KCTU. ``We will also keep demanding the government apologize for its crackdown on workers who fight for their rights to live.’’.. (K. Times, 7.23)

☞ 폭력 진압 이후 이랜드 매출 제로 투쟁, 29 매장 스톱 (P. Times, 7.21/incl. video)

☞ E.Land dispute escalates after crackdown on sit-in (Hankyoreh)

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