26개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
Y'day(8.18) afternoon in central Seoul: The 'Pan-national Committee for the Victims of SsangYong Motor' took the streets for a massive protest demonstration. During the demo...
...and the following rally...
...in front of CheongWaDae(the S. Korean presidential office) more than 2,000 workers and citizens criticized the gov't for its inactivity regarding the bitter fate of the remaining 30 workers(most of them KCTU activists and involved of the 77 days long-running SsangYong strike in 2009), who were fired after the violent suppression of the strike. During Moon Jae-in's first presidency campaign in 2012 he promissed the dismissed SsangYong workers his "strong support" for their "legitimate request" of reinstatement, but until now... NOTHING HAS CHANGED! Hence yesterday's protest urged the gov't to take action NOW, to ensure the immediate reinstatement of the dismissed SsangYong workers.
Related detailed reports in Korean, incl. lots of pics, you'll get on LabourStart (please check out the links uploaded today[8.19])!
Last Friday(8.10) Yonhap reported in the early afternoon(KST) the following: A North Korean delegation crossed the border into South Korea on Friday to take part in a planned inter-Korean workers' football match on the weekend, organizers said. The 64-member delegation, led by Ju Yong-gil, head of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, arrived at the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) office in Paju, just south of the inter-Korean border... They were greeted by Kim Myoung-hwan and Kim Ju-young, heads of South Korea's two major umbrella labor groups - the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU), respectively...(more you can read here)
Subsequently the S. Korean media, especially the trade unions' press (노동과 희망/Work& Hope by FKTU, 노동과 세계/Work& World by KCTU) and so-called "progessive" internet magazines such as Voice of the People(민중의소리) published squeamish detailed reports about all moments of the three-day visit by the delegation from the North. Even the S. Korean bourgeois press - such as Korea Times - provided pretty much detailed reports about the event...
Contrary to the datailed daily reports in the S. Korean press, the North' state media "failed"(resp. refused!!) to report about the event. And after three days of silence today's Rodong Sinmun the "North and South Korean Workers' Union Football Tournament"...
...was mentioned on page 4(out of 6 daily pages) just as an MARGINAL NOTE!!
Cho Chang-ik, chairman of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers' Union(KTU), collapsed...
...y'day(8.11) afternoon(KST) shortly after
...for 27 days demanding that the gov't restore KTU's legal status.
Cho Chang-ik was sent to the Green hospital in central Seoul after exhaustion around 2:30 p.m., where the medical team diagnosed severe arrhythmia, cornea damage, and high blood pressure. The physicians recommended immediate examination and treatment, saying, "If you don't stop fasting immediately, you will be in danger."(reports in Korean you'll get here, here and here)
On the same day KTU said that it'll announce soon - at the earliest tomorrow(8.13) - its new, possibly modified struggle plan...
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Y'day afternoon(KST) in Soseong-ri: (weekly)anti-THAAD protest/culture festival...
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