공지사항
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- '노란봉투'캠페인/국제연대..
- no chr.!
27개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
While - even today - Soseong-ri is still under siege...
Korea Times reported last Friday(5.04) the following...
The U.S. and China are currently discussing a possible withdrawal of a U.S. missile defense system from South Korea as part of a grand bargain over North Korea's nuclear program...(more you can read here)
Related article:
☞ What China wants from North Korea (Asia Times, 5.07)
Currently "events are taking place across the world to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx..."(al-Jazeera, 5.05)
Especially socialist, communist and revolutionary labor parties are celebrating his birthday... Except the so-called "Workers Party", ruling(since almost 70 years) North Korea(aka the "paradise of the working class"/"socialist fairyland")!! For example: yesterday's KCNA and Rodong Sinmun didn't mention it - i.e. Marx' birthday - at all.
Why? Because the "Workers Party of Korea"(WPK) and N. Korea it self is - possibly(^^) - neither socialist nor revolutionary. Quite the contrary: the N. Korean political system - represented by the WPK(resp. the Kim Dynastie, incl. Kim Jong-un) - is an anti-communist and counter-revolutionary entity!!!
On May 2, President of Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited South Korea on the invitation of South Korean President MOON Jae-in. According to the press, during his visit Erdoğan will meet with executives of many Korean multinational companies, including: Hyundai, Rotem, Hyundai Construction, Posco, SK, Hanwha, LG, and Daelim.Here, SK and POSCO are notorious to the Korean and Turkish working class for their frequent attacks on workers’ rights, especially the freedom of association.
In 2012-2013, workers at SK Group’s Daiyang SK company located in Çorlu joined Birleşik Metal İş Union. Afterward, company management brought workers from Korea to break the workers’ strike in violation of Turkish labor law and mobilized the police to attack the striking workers with baton and tear gas, resulting in many workers being injured and arrested.
As a more recent example, toward the end of 2017, at the Turkish POSCO Steel plant of world’s fifth biggest steel producer POSCO Steel, headquartered in South Korea, 80 workers were fired just because their union affiliation. When workers and union officials tried to protest dismissals and union rights violations, police used violence against union officials and workers and they were detained. Even though the union had majority membership in the factory, collective bargaining certification of the union was prevented through collusion of employer and the Labor Ministry. In Korea too, POSCO has carried out all kinds of unfair labor practices to avoid collective bargaining with democratic unions, even stuffing precarious workers into vans to drive out to isolated areas where they will be forced to withdraw from the trade union. Further, POSCO is avoiding converting subcontracted workers to regular, permanent status despite a court ruling and instead has instructed subcontractors to cover-up POSCO’s illegal dispatch labor practices.
In Hyundai plant in Turkey, workers are working in a no-union situation. Many times in the past, workers’ attempts to unionize were prevented with dismissals and threats.
There is no established union in any Korean company in Turkey.
All these examples, are in violation of basic human rights as well as international labor standards in ILO Conventions 87 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise and 98 Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining. But during the meetings of Erdoğan together with executives of these chaebol companies, they wouldn’t talk about difficult working conditions and these rights violations. To the contrary, maybe Erdoğan would give gurarantees to these chaebol conglomerates that in order to keep working conditions and wages low, they will prevent unionisation.
In July of last year President MOON, Jae-in made his first entrance into the international stage at the G20 Summit in Hamburg. Looking at the G20 Leaders’ Declaration adopted, there is a special section on “Sustainable Global Supply Chains” in the first part “Sharing the Benefits of Globalization.” President MOON and President Erdoğan agreed to this, a promise to uphold labor and human rights in supply chains. It is also a promise to carry out the international community’s consensus on standards for labor, human rights and the environment in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the ILO Tripartite Declaration of principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy. Further they resolve together with the G20 leaders to encourage multinational corporations to conclude International Framework Agreements (IFA). As member states of the G20, Turkey and Korea are obligated to honor this and uphold their responsibility to realize corporations’ labor and human rights due diligence in their supply chains and ensure remedy to victims.
On behalf of Korean Metalworkers Union (KMWU) in South Korea and Birleşik Metal İş in Turkey, we call on President Moon and President Erdoğan in one voice: if Korea and Turkey are to be responsible members of the international community fulfilling their obligations, they must make sure that Korean chaebol companies pay attention to the working conditions of workers in their supply chains domestic and globally, and guarantee the freedom of association to workers so that workers themselves can improve their working conditions through the strength of unity!
Two days ago KCTU in Busan celebrated this year's "Int'l Workers' Day" with a massive struggle rally...
But the cops(PIGS!) in Busan decided to "celebrate" the date in their own - very specific(^^) - way...
Related article:
☞ Police, activists clash over statue for forced labor victims (Yonhap, 5.01)
Photos by Cheong Nam-joon
Yesterday's "Int'l Workers' Day" in S. Korea: The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(KCTU) staged a massive rally in downtown Seoul, calling for greater efforts to enhance workers' rights...
Under the slogan, "Let's create a new labor environment in the South Korean society," the KCTU highlighted a series of union demands, such as an end to unfair layoffs, the same wage for the same work, and the elimination of workplace sexual abuses and discrimination against migrant workers...
"We make a declaration for the S. Korean society where the right to work is guaranteed for all," Kim Myoung-hwan, the KCTU chief, told a gathering of some 10,000 people at Seoul Plaza...
Prior the Korean Health and Medical Workers' Union, the Korean Teachers and Educational Workers' Union and other groups held their own rallies/demos.
Here you'll get KCTU's detailed report(in Korean), incl. lots of pics. And here you'll get today's Hankyoreh photo report(in English).
Related articles in Korean:
☞ “재벌 개혁하고 비정규직 없는 세상으로” ‘노동자의 봄’ 꿈꾸는 사람들 (민중의소리, 5.01)
☞ 128주년 세계노동절, “새로 쓰는 노동…재벌개혁, 비정규직 철폐로” (참세상, 5.01)
☞ 대구 2천여 명 노동절 집회…“모든 노동자의 노동기본권 쟁취하자” (뉴스민, 5.01)
Last Sunday(4.29) afternoon in central Seoul: About 300 Migrant workers(mainly MTU members) staged a rally(*), two days ahead of May Day...
...to call for South Korea to abolish the "Employment Permit System"(EPS). Additional they damanded the following...
At the same time they promoted MTU's upcoming "Migrant Workers Struggle Tour Bus"campaign, called “TuTu Bus Action”...
(*) Here you'll get a detailed report in Korean.
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