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SOLIDARITY WITH CAMBODIAN TEXTILE WORKERS!
Sunday(1.12) morning in central Seoul: Hundreds of migrant workers and Korean labour activists stage a rally to protest the bloody repression against textile workers striking for minimun wage increase in Cambodia.
KCTU's secretary general pledges support and announces participation next week in a mission to investigate the current situation in the South-east Asian country...
The majority of the demonstrators: Migrant workers from Cambodia...
More impressive pics you can see here! And - finally - here you can read several related Korean reports, incl. stuff published in the bourgeois press...
Y'day afternoon/evening in Seoul: About 1,500 KCTU activists and 'netizens' got together in front of the City Hall under the slogan "Step down, Park Geun-hye! Stop privatisation! Abolish repression on labour movement! Forward to the next General Strike!"...
Already the day before(1.03) 700 representatives of various labour unions, affiliated to KCTU, rallied in the afternoon in front of Seoul's Central Stn, called for a nationwide general strike and demanded that Park Geun-hye must resign...
Almost at the same time a bunch of geezers, members of the so-called (conservative/reactionary/semi-fascist!!)"Korea Parent Federation", gathered in front of KCTU's HQ and urged: "Dissolve KCTU & arrest their leaders!!"...
[KRWU strike & int'l solidarity] Video clip, shown during last Saturday's(12.28) KCTU "General Strike" rally in Seoul...
Railway Strike and plan for the next „General Strikes“ (KCTU, 12.30)
➠ As of December 31 11am, the members of KRWU go back to work and continue their struggle at workplaces.
➠ Under the slogan “Step Down, Park! Stop Privatisation!, Abolish Union Repression!,” KCTU will stage its 2nd general strike on January 9th and the 3rd on January 16th,
and will mobilize a nation wide simultaneous rallies on January 4th and People’s Day of Action on January 16th.
➠ The Government and Korail still maintain heavy disciplinary measures, criminal charge, lawsuit for compensation of damage and provisional seizure against the KRWU and striking workers.
The Korean Railway Workers Union, which has been striking for 22 days against the government’s plan for the railway privatization decided to return to work as of December 31, 11:00. According to the demand of the KRWU, the standing committee on land infrastructure and transportation in the National Assembly decided to establish a Sub-committee on Railway Development which is composed of 4 members from ruling party and 4 members from opposition parties. The subcommittee will be advised by a Policy Advisory Committee, composed of the Ministry, Korail, KRWU and civil experts. It will prepare a plan to prevent privatization of Suseo-KTX in short-term and comprehensive railway development plan in mid and long term. The KRWU welcome the establishment of the sub-committee and continue its struggle to stop privatization and defend the union and its members from disciplinary measures and possible union busting.
The Minister of Land infrastructure and Transportation welcomed the end of the strike, however, at the same time, reconfirmed its position that “The illegal strike is illegal.” The Korail also reconfirmed that it will maintain all the disciplinary measure planed, criminal chafe, lawsuit for compensation of damage of 7.7 billion KRW and provisional seizures for the union’s asset equivalent to 11.6 billion KRW. The related ministries are trying to legislate on the compulsory discharge(dismissal) against strikers in essential public services.
KCTU announced that it respect the KRWU’s decision to return to work and will keep its struggle to make sure that the discussion in the sub committee result in stopping privatization of railway and quality public services. It condemned the mass and heavy disciplinary measures, criminal charges and compensation of damage and provisional seizure and strongly requested to stop it. KCTU will continue its struggle in solidarity with social movements and international labour movements.
Regardless of the KRWU’s decision, under the slogan “Step Down, Park! Stop Privatisation! Abolish Union Repression!” KCTU will stage its 2nd general strike on January 9th and the 3rd on January 16th, and will mobilize a nation wide simultaneous rallies on January 4th and People’s Day of Action on January 16th.
International solidarity is still very urgently needed to stop violation of human and trade union rights of the heavy disciplinary measures, criminal charges, imprisonment and financial reprisal agains the striking workers and leaders of the union.
First of all: Yesterday's "General Strike", announced by KCTU after thousands of riot cops attacked its HQ on Dec. 22, took NOT place...
But nonetheless, from the early afternoon till late at night, about 50,000(100,000 according to KCTU/the cops "counted" 25,000...) workers and citizens gathered in front of Seoul's City Hall to protest against the clampdown/attacks on KCTU/KRWU, as well as moves toward privatization of the nation’s railway system(though the administration denies such claims) and the current government’s election manipulation scandal. [A good summary about yesterday's protests in S.K. you'll get here! More updated reports in English and Korean you can read on LabourStart. And finally here you can watch(MUST SEE!!) the complete KCTU rally in front of City Hall]
Some observers are calling the outbreak of protests - yesterday's rally also demanded the resignation of Park Geun-hye's administration - a proof that public anger has nearly “reached its boiling point”. KCTU already annonced the next "general strikes": 2014.1.9 and Jan. 16 (and these dates are ordinary workdays!!)...
Here some impressions from yesterday's events in front and around the City Hall:
13,000 riot cops were mobilized to prevent "any street protest/demonstration"...
As you can see, the cops failed to prevent "any" street protest...
Well, KCTU "definitely expxect" 1,000,000("백만시민대회/행동") participants! Other groups/organizations even plan on a kind of "revolutionary"(!!) scenario...
"Christmas" season(^^) in S. Korea...
On "Christmas Eve"(12.24): Four KRWU activists, incl. deputy labor union leader Park Tae-man, who evaded arrest during a police raid in Seoul on last Sunday, have sought refuge inside the Jogyesa Temple in the capital. Hundreds of cops surrounded the area to arrest any of the individuals should they set foot outside the Buddhist temple(more related updated reports in English you can read here!)...
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