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Y'day morning(KST), after 101 days, comrade Lee Chang-geun(policy chief of the Ssangyong Motor branch of the Korean Metal Workers’ Union) ended the "Chimney Sit-in Struggle" in Pyeongtaek...
A short while later, in the early afternoon(KST), he got the following Twitter message:
Explanation: Anand Mahindra(@anandmahindra), who sent the message, is the de facto owner of SsangYong Motor and the recipient of the message is comrade Lee Chang-geun(@Nomadchang)...
And finally... What do you(A. Mahindra!!) think about that...
...???
Is it still valid??
Questions upon questions...(^^)
[Today in the morning(KST)] As already y'day afternoon(KST) announced by comrade Lee Chang-geun(*): After 101 days...
...the "Chimney Sit-in Protest"(previous reports in English you'll get here) in Pyeongtaek ended.
Today's (bourgeois)Korea Times (rejoicing)reported the following:
A "chimney protest" that highlighted the plight of 187 workers laid off by Ssangyong Motor in 2009 is over.
Lee Chang-geun, who demanded their reinstatement from atop a 70-meter chimney at the company's plant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, came down Monday.
"With negotiations between the union and management in progress, I thought it wouldn't be necessary to continue this protest," he said. "I hope no other workers will have to come up here ever again. It is extremely painful and lonely."
Nearby the chimney, about 20 laid-off Ssangyong workers staged a protest saying, "It is time for the company to respond."
Exactly 101 days have passed since he climbed up onto the chimney in icy-cold weather on Dec. 13, along with Kim Jeong-wook, who came down earlier because of health problems...[The entire piece you can read here. Updated reports in Korean you'll get on LabourStart/please check out today's(3.23) links]
* Here you can read Lee Chang-geun's statement, published y'day afternoon(KST)...
2015 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Declaration
STOP RACISM!
We have come together today to mark the 2015 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
56 years ago today, on the 21st of March 1960, a peaceful anti-apartheid demonstration in South Africa came under police fire, killing 69 people in what would become known as the Sharpeville Massacre. Following this tragic incident, the United Nations in 1966 declared this day the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, in recognition of continuous popular struggles against entrenched racism and discrimination.
The apartheid regime may have disappeared, but the scourge of racial discrimination continues without decline throughout the world. It is therefore more important than ever to raise our voices in opposition to these practices, wherever they may be.
South Korea is no exception to the ongoing trend of race-based discrimination. Be it in the workplace, at the Ministry of Employment and Labor’s Employment Centers or at the Immigration Office, migrants in S. Korea are being systematically discriminated against. Migrant workers are being denied back wages and compensation for workplace accidents, and indeed often cracked down on simply for not having a visa. Young children are no exception, as they are round up and placed in foreigner detention centers. The S. Korean government is now seeking to further justify its lawless crackdowns on migrant workers through a revision of immigration law.
In broader society, the government and media have used disparate instances of crime committed by foreigners to create an atmosphere of fear and threat, where everyone deemed an outsider has become a potential criminal. Furthermore by opening their publications to anti-immigrant hate speech and shock advertisements by anti-immigrant entities, the mainstream media stands guilty of legitimizing racial discrimination.
We believe that the true threat to society comes not from the very presence of foreign workers in S. Korea, but from the ever-radicalizing threat to democracy and multiculturalism in the form of discrimination against these workers. The focus of all this hate and discrimination on migrant workers, married immigrant women and refugees shows only that the lash of intolerance strikes without exception the weakest and the poorest.
Migrant workers are not "stealing" Korean jobs, but on the contrary gratefully contributing to S. Korea’s economic growth; they are not placing sticks in the spokes of social unity, but rather adding their value to an ever-more diverse and dynamic society.
We have therefore come together today to strengthen our common resolve to stand against all forms of discrimination against our neighbors, the immigrants living in S. Korea.
Beyond S. Korea’s borders, we extend our hand in solidarity with those in Greece, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and all peoples calling for an end to racial discrimination.
We vow to lift our voices ever higher and to work ever harder toward this cause. We call for the following:
· Stop all forms of racial discrimination against immigrants!
· Stop treating all immigrants as criminals!
· Basic equality is a human right for all!
Seoul(S.Korea), March 21st, 2015.
Participants of the 2015 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Y'day(3.14) afternoon until the late evening in Pyeongtaek, an industrial city(home base of SsanYong Motors/SYM) south of Seoul: About 1000 people - labour activists and citizens - joined the "Action of Hope" in solidarity with the ongoing struggle of dismissed SYM workers for reemployment. The rally took place in front of SYM factory site, just few meters away from the chimney, occupied since 92 days by Lee Chang-geun(related reports you'll get on LabourStart) Here're just some impressions, depicting yesterday's event(more detailed reports in Korean, incl. pics/videos you'll get here, here and here!)...
Well, Hankyoreh's piece is (possibly)somehow(?) related to the contribution('Race of Hope' in solidarity with dismissed SsangYong workers...) published here one week ago. Anyway, here're some more impressions depicting yesterday's final stage(Seoul/Central Post Sit-in Struggle Site -> Pyeongtaek)...
Y'day afternoon in celebration of (today's)Int'l Women's Day about/only(!!) 1,200 female activists(and their male supporters), mainly members of different labour unions(organized in the KCTU), progressive civic groups and resistance organisations gathered in the center of the S. Korean capital Seoul to protest against the - still - terrible conditions for a majority of female workers.
Here're just some impressions(more reports in Korean you'll get on LabourStart, please check out the links posted 8.03), depicting the event...
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