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HYDIS workers' 3rd "Taiwan Struggle Tour"
Yesterday in Taiwan's capital city Taipei: Activists from the S. Korean Hydis labour union staged their "3rd Taipei Protest"...
...(here and here you'll get reports, related to the "2nd Taipei Protest") over factory layoffs...
One of the S. Korean activists reported y'day the following:
Immolated former Hydis union leader's bereaved family, union colleagues and Tawianese supporters set up a memorial shrine to remember BAE Jae Hyoung in front of YFY Chairman HO Shou Chuan's house today...
Taiwanese workers and human rights groups joined with South Korean Hydis workers and bereaved family of labor martyr BAE Jae Hyoung to call for the company to engage in dialogue.
However, the company continues to refuse the bereaved and workers' calls to engage in dialogue toward rescinding the plant closure, mass dismissals and for measures for the dead Hydis former union leader's family.
The press conference participants marched to YFY Chairman HO, Shou Chuan's house calling for the company to step up and engage in dialogue...
To heed dead union leader BAE Jae Hyoung's last wishes "continue your solidarity so the Hydis struggle can end in victory," the group set up a memorial shrine with Bae's photo in front of Mr Ho's house, awaiting a sincere apology and change of heart toward willingness to engage in dialogue in front of the dead BAE Jae Hyoung...
Today's (bourgeois)Taipei Times wrote: Union representatives from South Korea’s Hydis Technologies Co Ltd yesterday gathered outside the Yuen Foong Yu Group (YFY) building on their latest visit to Taipei to protest the dismissal of more than 300 workers from a factory in Icheon...(the complete article you can read here)
Related reports in Korean you'll get here, here and here. Related Chinese reports you'll get here and here.
A lot of more pics, depicting yesterday's activities in Taipei you'll get here. And finally here, here and here you can watch videos, depicting yesterday's protest events in Taipei, staged by Hydis labour union activists.
SINCE ONE YEAR: CHIMNEY SIT-IN STRUGGLE IN GUMI
In January 2013, Star Chemical shut down operations at its factory in Gumi, Gyeongsanbuk-do(Province), citing poor business results. A month later, the company announced that it was going out of business and notified the remaining 29 workers that they would be terminated. Some of these workers received compensation and settled with the company on May 26, 2014. Cha Gwang-ho was one of 11 workers who rejected the deal. The night after the settlement was signed, he climbed up a 45-meter-tall smokestack. Today, exactly one year passed since he started his sit-in struggle(*)...
* More detailed info/related articles you'll get here:
☞ Labor activist up a smokestack breaks a record... (Hankyoreh, 4.02)
☞ 불 꺼진 공장 내려다보며 고공농성 1년, 봄은 왔을까 (참세상, 5.22)
☞ 굴뚝 위 1년 ‘슬픈 신기록’…‘먹튀’가 할퀸 상처 (한겨레, 5.25)
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☞ Nepalese who worked in S. Korea helping to rebuild... (Hankyoreh,5.09)
☞ ‘Comfort women’ donate their savings to Nepal (JoongAng Ilbo, 5.13)
For more than 3000(!!) days, S. Korean guitar manufacturing workers have protested against their illegal mass firing(more detailed info about the struggle you'll get here/my previous contributions, related to the issue you'll get here) by Cort/Cor-tek Guitars...
Y'day afternoon @Bosingak in central Seoul: About 100 labour activists joined a "Solidarity Festival" to support the dismissed Cort/Cor-tek workers'(콜트콜텍+문화행동) ongoing struggle. Here're just some impressions...
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