공지사항
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- '노란봉투'캠페인/국제연대..
- no chr.!
24개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
For many years the SK gov't has refused to recognize the Korean Government Employees Union(KGEU), and has sacked 137 of its members, including its president and general secretary, charging them with being members of an “illegal organisation". Now the union is demanding that all those workers be re-hired and the KGEU is recognised. Now, with several measures(sit-in struggle, hunger strike etc.) they’re demanding - supported by int'l solidarity - that "President-elect Park(Geun-hye) make real her campaign commitment to genuine social dialogue"...
But four days ago(2.13) Seoul's Yongdeungpo District office, which is 'responsible' for area where the KGEU sit-in strike tent is located, sent a warning(eviction order) to remove the KGEU tent until tomorrow(2.18)...
...otherwise "it will be evicted by force in cooperation with the local police".
For more info and some statements/reports, please check out:
☞ 공무원노조/KGEU
☞ LabourStart
Photo by Juon Kim
Children of Our Age
by Wisława Szymborska
We are children of our age,
it's a political age.
All day long, all through the night,
all affairs--yours, ours, theirs--
are political affairs.
Whether you like it or not,
your genes have a political past,
your skin, a political cast,
your eyes, a political slant.
Whatever you say reverberates,
whatever you don't say speaks for itself.
So either way you're talking politics.
Even when you take to the woods,
you're taking political steps
on political grounds.
Apolitical poems are also political,
and above us shines a moon
no longer purely lunar.
To be or not to be, that is the question.
And though it troubles the digestion
it's a question, as always, of politics.
To acquire a political meaning
you don't even have to be human.
Raw material will do,
or protein feed, or crude oil,
or a conference table whose shape
was quarreled over for months;
Should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table or a square one?
Meanwhile, people perished,
animals died,
houses burned,
and the fields ran wild
just as in times immemorial
and less political.
Since almost 9 days Yeo Min-hui and Oh Su-yeong, union members of the Jaeneung Educational Institute (JEI) chapter of the Korean Educational Materials Industry Union, are occupying a 20-meter bell tower at the Hyehwa-dong Catholic Church in Seoul...(*)
"On Feb 13, representatives from various women's organisations, including KCTU Women's Committee held a press conference to support Bell Tower Action of 2 women workers from JEI for restoration of CBA and reinstatement of all dismissed union members." (KCTU, 2.14)
* Here you'll get some more detailed info!!
Last weekend: Almost 1,5 billion people across the world - mainly in East/South-East Asia, but also in North American and European cities (with Asian communities) - celebrated the "Chinese" Lunar New Year...
In S. Korea it's called "Seollal" and the three-day holiday is used by many people who are living and working in the major cities to return to their hometowns to visit their parents...
But this year not everyone got the possibility to follow the tradition, because they're involved in several sit-in struggles on bell towers, bridges, transmission towers or just on streets. But, of course, they also celebrated the incoming new "Year of the Snake"...
Here just some impressions(photographed by Yoon Kyeong-min) from the "Sit-in Struggle Tent Village" in front of Daehanmun, the main entrance of Deoksu-gung(palace) in the center of Seoul:
Related articles:
☞ “독사의 독을 품고 반격하는 해가 됐으면” (NewsCham, 2.10)
☞ 아들의 33m 고공농성, 어머니는 한 달 넘게 몰랐다 (OMN, 2.09)
'Seollal' - Lunar New Year - in S. Korea..
The Jaenueng BELL TOWER sit-in struggle - despite 'Siberian' temperatures - lasts now since 5 days in Seoul's Hyehwa-dong!!
Related short documentary video:
☞ The first day of the BELL TOWER sit-in struggle (2013.2.06)
Today's Kyunghyang Shinmun wrote the following:
Yeo Min-hui and Oh Su-yeong, union members of the Jaeneung Educational Institute (JEI) chapter of the Korean Educational Materials Industry Union, launched a demonstration atop a 20-meter bell tower at the Hyehwa-dong Catholic Church in Seoul on February 6.
The bell tower stands across from the headquarters of JEI in Hyehwa-dong. Yeo and her colleagues have been protesting for 1,875 days including the day she made her climb. The workers began a sit-in in a tent after JEI breached a collective agreement with the union in 2008 and laid off Yeo and other union leaders.
Instructors working for educational material publishers such as JEI belong to a special type of employee which is not legally recognized as workers. The company with which the instructors sign a contract determines their wages and working conditions, but they remain in the blind spot from labor's three primary rights because they are not recognized as workers.
Detailed background info about their struggle you'll find here!
PS: The current temperature in Seoul is...
...Siberian Style!!!!
Related articles:
☞ 재능지부 해고자 여민희·오수영 고공농성 돌입 (KCTU, 2.06)
☞ 재능교육지부 노동자 2명, 고공농성 돌입 (NewsCham, 2.06)
☞ 재능교육 해고자 고공농성 돌입 “해고자 전원복직” (VOP, 2.06, incl. video)
☞ 15m 종탑 위로 올라간 노동자…재능교육 해고자 고공농성 돌입 (Hankyoreh, 2.06)
Solidarity Food Tent to Support the "Gangjeong Angels"
Oh Yeong-ae, mother of the young female video maker Kim Gami has recently started a nationwide-traveling street food stall(*), to raise funds for activists’ fines...
Two days ago(2.04) the preliminary last stop in Seoul was in the Hongdae area. Here just some really nice impressions, photographed by comrade Yoon Kyeong-min:
* More detailed info about the traveling schedule, menu etc. you'll get here!
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