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Here the latest by S.K. newspapers English editions:

 

Yesterday(7.18) bourgeois daily JoongAng Ilbo wrote following:

 

Pre-dawn assault on Posco building fails to dislodge entrenched strikers

 

Police retreated after an unsuccessful attempt to evict 1,500 striking construction workers from the Posco headquarters building in Pohang, North Gyeongsang province. The police, who had seized the lower three floors of the building from strikers over the weekend, moved into the fourth floor, which was empty of protesters, at about 11 p.m. Sunday, and began removing chairs and office furniture that the strikers had used to block the fire stairways between the fourth and fifth floors.


They mounted an assault intended to clear the rest of the building at about 2 a.m. yesterday, but met strong resistance. Police said they were attacked with jury-rigged flamethrowers and barrages of hot water. Four policemen were reportedly treated for burns. They withdrew, they said, because of the danger of a fire in the building ignited by those homemade weapons.


After the assault, about 300 protesters left the building voluntarily, claiming ill health. The other 1,200 remained on the fifth through 12th floors, pelting police with garbage from the roof. Police had allowed food shipments from family members of the strikers to pass through their lines.


The authorities cut off the building's water supply yesterday morning to prevent more scalding water attacks.


Civic groups in Pohang say they have lost patience with the strikers. About 1,500 members of 33 civic groups in the city asked the workers to stop the sit-in and go back to the negotiating table. They planned a rally at a city stadium today to press their demand, and posted signs around the city calling for an end to the dispute.


Park Seung-ho, the city mayor, released a statement yesterday asking the workers to return to their jobs. He said he did not want them to add to the city's economic woes of a population decline and increasing unemployment. The strikers are employees of several small construction companies, all contractors of Posco. Their most recent negotiations with the Korea Specialty Contractors Association over wages and working hours were broken off early Sunday morning.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200607/17/200607172130228809900090409041.html

 

In today's edition following is written:

Posco occupation drags on through a sixth day

 

Today's Korea Times is writing this:

 

Police Gear Up to End Standoff at POSCO

Police in the southeastern city of Pohang are seeking to disband striking subcontracted construction workers who occupied POSCO's headquarters for the sixth straight day yesterday by cutting off electricity and water supplies to the building.


Earlier in the day, the government warned that it would step in to end the standoff if the workers refuse to leave the building voluntarily, saying that the labor strike could significantly hurt the world's fifth largest steel producer.

 

About 2,000 workers from subcontractors to POSCO forced themselves into the company's office building last Thursday, protesting against the management's decision to request police intervention in a strike led by a regional industrial union of construction workers.

The police, who fought over the weekend to gain control over the first four floors of the 12-story property, believe that about 1,000 workers currently remain inside the building.

In an announcement jointly made by the ministers of labor, justice, and government administration and home affairs, the government promised to mediate talks between the construction workers' union and a group of Pohang construction companies, many of them contractors of POSCO, which have been disputing over wages and working conditions of workers, on the condition that the striking workers give up their control of the building.

 

About 7,000 riot police personnel are currently deployed to the POSCO building, according to police.

 

However, the government said it could order law enforcement authorities to force an end to the standoff at POSCO's headquarters if the striking workers refuse to voluntarily leave the building, calling the recent labor actions as ``excessive'' and ``unlawful.''

 

``The construction workers' union has been pushing for a strike against the construction and machinery companies in Pohang, and occupied the headquarters of POSCO, which is not a direct party in the labor strife,'' said Minister of Government Administration and Home Affairs Lee Yong-sup during a news conference held at the central government complex in downtown Seoul yesterday.

 

``Should the striking workers continue their illegal collective actions, there will be no alternative for us but to respond strictly to those actions by law and order. We will allow legal actions but will always restrict illegal actions,'' Lee said.

 

On Monday, POSCO issued a statement condemning the construction workers' occupation of their office building, saying that it will consider requesting law enforcement authorities to cut off electricity and water supplies.

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http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200607/kt2006071818021268040.htm

 

The semi-official news agency Yonhap was reporting yesterday:

Gov't willing to mediate talks if protesters end POSCO strike

 

The riot cops already attacked several times the

striking workers and their supporters

..and many of them were..

..(partly seriously) injured

 

 

About the beginning of the strike Voice of People was writing this notice:

 

Ulsan plant laborers on a general strike

     

The plant construction laborers of Ulsan area has been on a general strike on 5 July, following Pohang area.
  
A labor union of Ulsan plant construction(Chairperson Lee Jong Hwa) had voted for or against actions taken in a labor dispute at the terrace land on the Tae Hwa river from 10 in the morning on this day. The union has started on a strike right after the vote was passed by 783 against to 117.
  
After 1 p.m. on this day, even though the vote was finished, plant laborers of Ulsan area had gathered at the terrace on the Tae Hwa river, and the strike atmosphere was raising because unorganized laborers were submitting applications for joining the union.
  
After 3 p.m., about 1,000 laborers were preparing their fight shouting slogans such as "Let's fight till the end."
  
After last year's general strike, unfair labor practice such as denial employment, enforcing secession the union etc. at the Ulsan area has been continuing so requirement of this strike is focusing on recognizing a labor union and contracting collective bargain. A labor union has been requiring these requirement but the company has been denying even the first meeting for the formal bows.

The labor union of Ulsan plant marched Ulsan downtown from 4:30 p.m. starting at city hall, and then They took part in another assembly for solving larbor suppression and gaining the basic rights of laborers.
 
Before this, construction union of Pohang area(Chair person Lee Ji Kyoung) has been stopping their work 5 days and keeping 4,000 comrades still. Also, other unions of east part of south Cholla and west part of south Kyoungsang will be on a strike right after voting for or against on 8 July.

http://www.vop.co.kr/english/news_view_eng.html?serial=46681

 

A summary of the latest developments in Korean you can read here:

 

[현장] 포항건설노조 포스코 점거 및 영남노동자 결의대회
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