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- '노란봉투'캠페인/국제연대..
- no chr.!
Today's Hankyoreh reported the following: An amendment to the Minimum Wage Act including regular bonuses paid more than once a month and benefits such as food, transportation, and lodging expenses into the scope of the minimum wage was passed in a regular session of the National Assembly on the afternoon of May 28... The outcry from the labor world has been intense. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) held a Seoul-area demonstration before the National Assembly...
...with around 5,000 participants that day, as well as general strike rallies in 13 other cities around South Korea to call for an “end to discussions on changing the minimum wage for the worse”...(more you can read here)
Already y'day evening(KST) a S. Korean activist reported the following: 80,000 KMWU members downed tools for at least 2 hours today to respond to KCTU's call for an urgent general strike against changes to Minimum Wage Act that would enable employers to "meet" minimum wage standards without actually raising workers' wages (it's simple, just apply new math calculations!).
Hyundai Motor workers led the strike wave downing tools at 1:30 pm (and separate strike for afternoon shift) and GM Korea workers held general assemblies for rank and file to heed the KCTU call.
For Kia Motor, Hyundai Heavy Industry and other workers who took action short of rank and file strike, the union branches had extended union officers' strike. Employers such as Hyundai Motor leafletted the workers with "illegal strike" rhetoric to intimidate workers from participating in the strike...
Related reports by the S. Korean independent/progressive media you can read here and here. Reports by KCTU's affiliated organizations you'll get here(KMWU) and here(KHMWU).
Meanwhile...
Related article:
☞ Relations between the government and labor rapidly cool down (Daily Labor News, 5.29)
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