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Today's (bourgeois)Korea Times reported the following:

Two fired, non-permanent workers of Hyundai Motor came down from a high-rise steel tower near the company’s assembly line in Ulsan Thursday, ending a 296-day sit-in protest calling for their non-permanent status to be changed to a regular one.

Choe Byeong-seung, 38, and Cheon Ui-bong, 31, were taken into custody by police following their descent from the tower to be questioned over what was called an illegal protest. The two are members of the Korean Metal Workers’ Union, an affiliate of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions.

They started their protest after climbing 23 meters of the 50-meter tower on Oct. 17, 2012, demanding the nation’s largest automaker observe the Supreme Court ruling that states contract employees should be considered permanent workers if they have worked for a company for more than two years.

The court also acknowledged non-permanent workers at subcontractors as employees of the automaker, a ruling requiring the company to give workers regular status if they work there for more than two years. But Hyundai refused to accept the demand... (the complete article you can read here!)
 

For more detailed info, please read:
☞ Two Hyundai Motor Workers Come down from the Steel Tower after 296 Days
☞ Workers in Ulsan end 296-day aerial protest... (Hankyoreh, 8.09)
 

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