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Today's Korea Herald published following (in my opinion somehow objective/??) article about KCTU's planned "General Strike":


Members' lukewarm response weakens KCTU walkout call 
 

The nation's largest labor umbrella union yesterday vowed to go ahead with a massive walkout on July 2 with the momentum for the strike weakened by an increasingly negative response from its members.


The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions declared July as the "month of struggle," saying that an estimated 40,000 members from workplaces across the country will gather in Seoul to hold rallies on July 3-5.


"We decided that all workplaces belonging to our umbrella union will shut down their operations for the whole day on July 2 to urge the government to renegotiate the beef deal between Korea and the United States," KCTU head Lee Suk-haeng told reporters.


But the KCTU leadership's plan for a general strike has drawn less support from its members than in the previous years, indicating a growing number of unionized workers, worried with the deteriorating economy, are reluctant to join in politically-motivated walkouts.


In the vote held last week, 70.3 percent of the 271,322 workers who cast their ballots voted for the walkout. But the number of voters accounted for slightly more than 50 percent of the KCTU members eligible for the voting.


Critics say the vote results, which were tallied on Monday, meant that just about 30 percent of the KCTU workers approved the plan for a nationwide strike.


Further embarrassing the KCTU leaders was the rejection by workers of Hyundai Motor Co. to join the walkout.


It was the first time the labor union of the country's largest car manufacturer failed to gain support from a majority of its members for a strike in its 21-year history.


But executive members of the Hyundai Motors union are pushing for the strike, insisting that a majority of the workers that participated in the vote were in favor of it.


But the move is facing objection from its members.


"I wonder if it's necessary for the labor union of our company to violate the law and join the KCTU's politically-motivated strike at such a difficult time when our lives are being threatened by factors like record-high oil prices," a Hyundai Motor employee wrote on its union's website.


The KCTU requested its branches to submit a specific action plan of the strike to its headquarters by next Wednesday.


Before proceeding with a general strike, the group will take part in a giant-scale rally to gain public support. It projects up to 100,000 unionized workers to join the candlelight vigil, which is set to be launched this Friday...



Related:

'Political Strike' May Undermine Labor Group (K. Times)

 


Anyway...

THE STRUGGLE GOES ON!!

 

 

 

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