30개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
December 5, activists from KCTU and other social movement organizations staged a sit-in at the lobby of Federation of Korean Industries(FKI). This federation, representing Corporate Greed, offered bribe and lobbied to the government for union busting, deregulation, and regressive labour reform. Samsung, Hyundai, POSCO, Lotte and LG should be charged for bribery and the FKI should be dissolved!(source: KCTU, 12.5, via facebook)
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), one of the nation's two umbrella unions, is organizing rallies at several spots on Yeouido where the public can participate. One is in front of the National Assembly, where an investigation into the scandal is underway. The KCTU said it will continue the rally until the vote is held. The umbrella union will also hold a gathering in front of the Federation of Korean Industries today...
...demanding that it disband for encouraging member companies to raise funds for two foundations set up by Park's disgraced confidant Choi Soon-sil.(source: Korea Times, 12.5/KCTU's press release in Korean you'll get here)
Today's (bourgeois-conservative)Korea Herald reported the following: It was the largest rally in South Korea’s history, held in an amazingly peaceful manner. Yet, the message was stern and unforgiving: President Park Geun-hye should be removed from office right now, not several months later. The protests, which flared up Saturday in Seoul and at over 60 locations throughout the country, were a clear sign of growing public anger toward the president over an influence-peddling and corruption scandal, as well as the political parties that have so far failed to remove her from office. An estimated 2.32 million - 1.7 million in Seoul - poured onto the streets to ramp up pressure on the embattled leader...(the full report you can read here)
Related detailed reports you'll get here:
☞ Anti-Park vigils keep swelling (JoongAng Ilbo, 12.4)
☞ Candlelit rally tightens noose on Park (K. Times, 12.4)
☞ 2.32 million people calling for Pres. Park’s immediate resignation (Hankyoreh, 12.4)
KCTU's impressive photo report, depicting yesterday's mass demos in Seoul, Daegu, Gwangju, Busan, Ulsan and Jeju-si you can see here (more detailed reports in Korean, incl. lots of pics, you'll get on LabourStart/please check out the links, posted today).
Video/TV reports, documenting yesterday's (struggle)events in Seoul, you'll get here(please watch the stuff posted by [팩트TV.12.03] and here(by OhmyTV, 12.03).
A sixth nationwide anti-President rally will be held in Seoul and other cities as planned on Saturday, organizers(Emergency People's Movement Calling for the Park Geun-hye Government to Step Down/박근혜정권퇴진 비상국민행동) said Tuesday...(source: Korea Times, 11.29)
Two days ago(11.29) teleSUR announced the following: Millions of Korean workers will take part in a nationwide strike Wednesday to demand the impeachment of President Park Geun Hye, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and other organizations confirmed...(more you can read here).
One day earlier(11.28) Korea Times reported that KCTU(*) said up to 300,000 union members will stage a partial walk out...
And y'day(11.30) - finally - KCTU reported(via facebook): Today 220,000 workers joined our nation wide strike...
The Ministry of Employment and Labor puts the number of people who participated in the strike at 70,000...(source: asia one, 12.1)
* PS. KCTU's membership: about 700,000 workers...(^^)
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