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SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE OF DISMISSED CORT/COR-TEK WORKERS!

Reports, related to the latest developments:
☞ 콜트콜텍 농성자 전원연행...연행 중 조합원 병원후송 (NewsCham, 2.05)
☞ 경찰, 콜트악기 농성자 강제 해산..13명 전원 연행 (VOP, 2.05)
☞ 경찰, 콜트악기 부평공장 농성자 전원 연행 (OMN, 2.05)
☞ 콜트악기 농성 '2천130일' 승자가 둘인 싸움 (Yonhap, 2.05)
☞ Video: "5일 오전 콜트악기 농성자 전원 연행" (VOP-TV, 2.05)

And finally here you'll get some more detailed background info(in English!) about their struggle.
 

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Members of the Korean Metal Workers’ Union(KMWU) started to protest on Jan. 30 outside of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Busan shipyard. They sit with the coffin of Choi Gang-seo, a worker and union member who committed suicide after being laid off from his job at Hanjin. After Choi’s suicide, the union asked to discuss the matter with Hanjin, but the company declined to discuss it, saying it was a personal matter. The unionists are protesting asking Hanjin to drop their 15.8 billion won (US$14.8 million) lawsuit against the union for "damages" incurred during their strike...

And last Saturday(Feb. 2) thousands of KCTU activists and members of solidarity organisations took the streets of Busan to support KMWU's protest. After the opening rally - during the demonstration, heading for Hanjin's shipyard - they were confronted with a massive force of riot cops...

Here some impressions, photographed by comrade Yoon Kyeong-min:

Related reports:

☞ 한진중공업 앞, ‘물품반입’ 놓고 경찰과 시위대 충돌 (NewsCham, 2.02)
☞ "용역 없다더니" 딱걸린 한진중공업 (OMN, 2.03)
 

The rally, demo and police attacks... reported by Voice of People(VOP):
☞ http://www.vop.co.kr/A00000594796.html
☞ http://www.vop.co.kr/A00000594813.html 
 

And finally some impressive photo reports you can see here(KCTU) and here(VOP)!!
 

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Last Friday(2.01) in the  morning riot cops and so-called "security staffers"(i.e. hired thugs) raided and destroyed the sit-in struggle site of Cort/Cor-tek workers in Incheon/Bupyeong!!

Here some more impressive pics from the police attack and the resistance against it, photographed by Yoon Kyeong-min:

More detailed info(in Korean) about the ongoing struggle of the dismissed Cort/Cor-tek guitar manufacturing workers you can check out here. And finally here you'll get some English background info (incl. pics and videos, but not updated...) about the Cort/Cor-tek struggle.
 

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