5112개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
Last Saturday(11.24) afternoon/evening the "4th Pan-national Rally"(to support the struggle of the dismissed Ssangyong workers) took place in downtown Seoul...
But sadly only 1,500(according to the cops: 1000/the organizers reported 3000) activists joined the 'event'(*)!!
Related reports:
☞ 쌍용차 4차 범국민대회 1500명 운집...“국정조사 실시하라” (NewsCham, 11.24)
☞ 이정희 “국정조사로 쌍용차 회계조작에 의한 정리해고 밝혀내야” (VOP, 11.25)
☞ 쌍용차문제해결을 위한 4차 범국민대회 (KCTU, 11.25)
* Seoul's current population: approx. 10,000,000(!!!)
Reminder: Jaeneung Sit-in Struggle Collective(JSSC) is waging a fierce battle against the Jaeneung Education Institute(JEI) for almost 5 years, and the struggle still doesn’t end (detailed background info about the strike you'll find here!).
Last Friday(11.23) JSSC - joined by representatives/activists from several labor unions(organized in the KCTU), resistance organisations and solidarity groups - 'celebrated' the 1,800th Struggle Day with a protest rally, held in the early afternoon in front of JEI in Seoul's Hyehwa-dong...
...followed in the evening by a culture festival at JSSC's sit-in struggle site in downtown Seoul, nearby the City Hall (impressions photographed by Jang Seong-ryol)...
...and finalized it in the night with a solidarity party at the same place:
Related articles:
☞ 재능투쟁 1800일, “정치권 도움 없이도 승리하는 투쟁 만들 것” (NewsCham, 11.23)
☞ 재능교육지부 투쟁 승리를 위한 결의대회 (KCTU, 11.24)
Outside of Deoksu Palace in central Seoul, laid-off Ssangyong Motor workers live in a makeshift tent village. Central District Office has issued a warning that the camp will be soon demolished, prompting visits of support by local religious leaders. In the middle is Kim Jeong-woo, who has been on a hunger strike since Oct. 10 when the National Assembly dropped the parliamentary investigation into the layoffs. Kim has pledged not to eat until the investigation is restarted. Eventually, he, too exhausted, had to be moved to a hospital... (Hankyoreh, 11.20)
And exactly this was the reason why Han Sang-kyun, Mun Ki-soo and Bok Ki-seong decided to occupy...
Yesterday's Yonhap reported the folowing: "Three men, including Han Sang-kyun, former leader of Ssangyong Motor Co.'s labor union, hold a sit-in 30 meters up a 50 meter electrical supply tower near the company's plant in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, on Nov. 20, 2012, to demand the company reinstate its laid-off workers and that a parliamentary inspection of the lay-offs be held."
Related articles:
☞ 쌍용차 30미터 고공농성 “투쟁을 이어가야 한다” (NewsCham, 11.20)
☞ 쌍용차 해고자 3명 평택공장 철탑농성 (KCTU, 11.20)
☞ 쌍용차 한상균 전 지부장 등 고공농성 돌입.. 경찰 및 노조원들 현장 집결중 (VOP, 11.20)
Solidarity with the Protest of Hyundai Workers in Ulsan!
Since 34 days two labor activists - one official of the irregular workers' union of Hyundai Motors and the other a former irregular worker at the automaker - are now in sit-in strike on a power supply post...
But - alas - solely the (conservative/reactionary)newspaper JoongAng Ilbo mentioned today their struggle:
A protest staged by two auto workers on a transmission tower overlooking Hyundai Motor’s Ulsan plant has now gone on for over a month, raising worries that it will become a prolonged strike with no end in sight.
Choi Byeong-seung, an in-house subcontract worker for the automaker until he was laid off in 2005 for joining a strike, and Chun Ui-bong, an official of Hyundai Motor’s temporary workers’ union, climbed up a 50-meter (164-feet) electrical pole on Oct. 17, demanding the auto giant immediately give 13,000 temporary workers at the plant, including cafeteria workers and janitors, full-time status... (here you can read the complete article!)
Meanwhile today's Yonhap reported the following: "Three men, including Han Sang-kyun, former leader of Ssangyong Motor Co.'s labor union, hold a sit-in 30 meters up a 50 meter electrical supply tower near the company's plant in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, on Nov. 20, 2012, to demand the company reinstate its laid-off workers and that a parliamentary inspection of the lay-offs be held." (more detailed info you'll get as soon as possible!!)
Finally here some other impressions from last weekend's Solidarity Rally in front of the protest side in Ulsan:
Some more pics you can see here!
1.) The sit-in struggle place nearby Daehanmun, the main entrance of Deoksu-gung(palace) in the center of Seoul, is not anymore just the 'Ssangyong Memorial Site'! Since last Tuesday(11.13) it's called the "SKY Sit-in Struggle Tent Village"...(*)
2.) Nov. 18, (the former) Ssangyong Memorial Site: Kim Jeong-woo, head of the Ssangyong chapter of the Korean Metal Workers' Union, was since 40 days in hunger strike to emphasize the demand of the dismissed Ssangyong workers for reemployment, promised 3 years ago...
...but today in the early morning...
...he was hospitalized!
* Nov. 13: "(Activists) in Seoul held the press conference where they announced the establishment of a joint sit-in tent zone in the center of Seoul in the morning of the same day. The tent zone, succeeding the collective spirit of the 'Grand March for Life and Peace - We are the SKY' is hosted by activists under the title of ‘Let’s live together!' will unify the struggle of Ssangyong workers, Yongsan families, Gangjeong resistance and non-nuclear-declared villages." (source: Save Jeju Now)
But only two days later Yonhap reported that "The Jung-gu district office delivered a notice Wednesday that it would ask police to break up their protest tents and impose fines unless they take them down voluntarily within 15 days..."
Related articles:
☞ Protesters defy eviction order (K. Herald, 11.15)
☞ We Oppose Tearing Down the Daehanmun Protest Site (Kyunghyang Shinmun, 11.19)
Solidarity with the Protest of Hyundai Workers in Ulsan!
Since four weeks two labor activists - one official of the irregular workers' union of Hyundai Motors and the other a former irregular worker at the automaker - are now in sit-in strike on a power supply post...
...at the company's plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan to demand Hyundai give its irregular workers permanent stable employment contracts.
From Saturday(11.17) afternoon until today's morning about 2,500 workers and supporting activists held a solidarity rally/culture festival in front of their sit-in struggle place... Here're just some impressions:
Related report:
☞ “울산에서 전국으로 비정규직 철폐하자!” (KCTU, 11.17)
Related previous articles:
☞ Ulsan labor protest making a splash (Hankyoreh, 10.20)
☞ Irregular Hyundai Motor workers still shivering atop pylon (Hankyoreh, 11.9)
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