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Today's (bourgeois)Korea Times reported the following:
Two fired, non-permanent workers of Hyundai Motor came down from a high-rise steel tower near the company’s assembly line in Ulsan Thursday, ending a 296-day sit-in protest calling for their non-permanent status to be changed to a regular one.
Choe Byeong-seung, 38, and Cheon Ui-bong, 31, were taken into custody by police following their descent from the tower to be questioned over what was called an illegal protest. The two are members of the Korean Metal Workers’ Union, an affiliate of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions.
They started their protest after climbing 23 meters of the 50-meter tower on Oct. 17, 2012, demanding the nation’s largest automaker observe the Supreme Court ruling that states contract employees should be considered permanent workers if they have worked for a company for more than two years.
The court also acknowledged non-permanent workers at subcontractors as employees of the automaker, a ruling requiring the company to give workers regular status if they work there for more than two years. But Hyundai refused to accept the demand... (the complete article you can read here!)
For more detailed info, please read:
☞ Two Hyundai Motor Workers Come down from the Steel Tower after 296 Days
☞ Workers in Ulsan end 296-day aerial protest... (Hankyoreh, 8.09)
Related articles/reports in Korean... please check out on LabourStart!
2013 GANGJEONG MARCH FOR LIFE & PEACE
Last Sunday(8.04) in the early afternoon the Peace March's conclution was celebrated with a huge and memorable human chain event in Gangjeong village...
More pics you'll get here and here!
But Saturday's "Culture Festival" in Jeju City was - possibly - the undisputed highlight of the "Peace March"...
Dismissed Ssangyong workers'(they joined the march from the beginning until the end!) performance
A short while later: Oliver Stone met some Ssangyong workers and assured his solidarity with their struggle...
"Culture Festival": Concert and party until late in the night...
Related articles/reports:
☞ Oliver Stone joins Jeju residents’ battle against naval base (Hankyoreh, 8.05)
☞ Oliver Stone: "Gangjeong will change lives" (Jeju Weekly, 8.04)
☞ 아카데미 수상 美감독 눈에 비친 제주해군기지는 (시사제주, 8.03)
☞ 영화 플래툰 감독 올리버 스톤 "제주 해군기지화 안타까워" (연합, 8.04)
☞ 제주해군기지 둘러싼 평화 인간띠 1000人 ‘장관’ (제주의소리, 8.04)
☞ 2013 강정생명평화대행진, 700여 명 인간띠 잇기로 마무리 (참세상, 8.05)
☞ 2013 강정생명평화대행진 총정리 영상 (video documentary about the "Peace March")
2013 GANGJEONG MARCH FOR LIFE & PEACE
Related article, incl. some pics:
☞ 올리버 스톤 감독 “제주 군사기지화 안타까워” (제주의소리, 8.02)
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