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Yesterday's (bourgeois) Korea Herald reported following:

Civil servants fired for joining anti-gov't rally    

The government said Monday it has dismissed 14 head members of three civil servant unions and disciplined a dozen others for participating in anti-government rallies in July, Yonhap said.

The Ministry of Public Administration and Security said a total of 105 unionized government employees belonging to the three unions, which recently merged into one, had been referred to its disciplinary committee for taking part in the July anti-government rally.

The rally was organized by opposition parties and civic activists to protest the Lee Myung-bak government's attempts to revise media bills and renovate major river basins.

Fourteen senior members of the government employees unions were fired for violating obligatory political neutrality as public servants, according to the ministry. Another 37 other employees were punished by being demoted, suspended from duty, reprimanded or with pay cuts.

 
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/10/12/200910120096.asp

Related articles (on the current attempts to suppress the labour movement):
☞ Ssangyong unionist draws jail term for organizing strike (K. Herald, 10.9)

☞ Prosecution Summons KTU Leaders (Korea Times, 10.8)