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2012 Nat'l Workers Struggle Rally (#1)
As always on the second weekend in Nov. the "National Workers Rally" - to mark the decades-long struggle of the S. Korean working class for democracy, human and labor rights - took place in Seoul.
According to 'customs' the events started y'day evening/night with a powerful "Struggle Culture Festival" in front of Seoul Station, in the center of the S. Korean capital and at least 3000 workers, students and resistance activists participated...
Here just some impressions from the event:
Ralated reports:
☞ 3000여 노동자, ‘전국노동자대회 전야제’ 개최 (NewsCham, 11.11)
☞ 2012 전국노동자대회 전야제 (KCTU, 11.11)
Solidarity with the Protest of Hyundai Workers in Ulsan!
Since 22 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...
...at the company's plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan to demand Hyundai give its irregular workers permanent stable employment contracts.
Y'day, after one month crossing almost the entire territory of S. Korea, the "Grand March for Life and Peace" - under the motto "All is the Sky, We are the Sky" - ended in Seoul...
In the late morning a protest rally in front of the Nat'l Assembly was held:
In the early afternoon a solidarity visit, to support the resistance movement against destruction of poor tenants' homes, took place in the area of the Yongsan Massacre:
After that a short stop to protest in front of the Ministry of 'Defense':
A short while later a joint rally was held in front of Seoul Stn to support the demands of the victims of the SsangYong mass dissimissal for the promised reemployment:
In the evenening the last destination(Seoul City Hall Plaza) to celebrate final Culture Struggle Festival:
Related reports:
☞ ‘생명평화대행진’ 참가자·쌍용차 동조단식단, “쌍용차 국정조사” 촉구 (VOP, 11.03)
☞ ‘함께 살자! 모두가 하늘이다’...3000인 도심 집회, 행진 (NewsCham, 11.04)
☞ 쌍용차 해고자 전원복직 3000인 동조단식 (KCTU, 11.04)
Last Friday's Hankyoreh newspaper published the following piece about currently experienced workers' solidarity:
Like a steaming bowl of rice, restaurant offers warmth to those in need
Haru Hope Restaurant is a new kind of place that lets you enjoy a meal to help laid off workers.
Back on March 11, an anonymous 46-year-old rented out an indoor “pojangmacha” (outdoor tent restaurant) in Sangdo, a neighborhood in Seoul’s Dongjak district. The Sangdo Pojangmacha had been run by the wife of Korean Metal Workers’ Union Ssangyong chapter head Kim Jeong-woo, who had been laid off from his job. For that day, a sign went up announcing that the “Haru Hope Restaurant” (“haru” is a Korean word meaning “one day”) was open for business.
The restaurant is open one day a week to offer a helping hand to victims of the Ssangyong layoffs. Guests arrived clueless and left with an understanding of just what the meaning of their meals was.
The Sangdo Pojangmacha has been hanging up the Haru sign every Sunday since.
As word got around, sympathetic restaurant owners happily donated their own premises on holidays. In May, Chunsamwol [Spring March], a Korean multi-course meal restaurant near Seoul’s Hongik University, became Haru’s second branch. A third sprang up at Takjumak, a restaurant in Cheongju’s Sogok neighborhood in North Chungcheong province that specializes in unfiltered makgeolli (Korean rice wine; the restaurant’s name means ‘Makgeolli House’), followed by a fourth at Mapo Restaurant in the Samseong neighborhood of Daejeon.
Now a fifth is set to open its doors on Nov. 4 at the Ttasinbap [Hot Rice Ball] restaurant in Daegu’s Bisan neighborhood.
In each of these cases, the owners are letting out their restaurants on days when they are closed anyway: Sundays in the first, third, and fourth cases, Monday in the second.
The chefs are layoff victims: Ssangyong at the first branch, Cor-tek at the second, YPR at the third. Cooking duties at the fifth will be handles by workers laid off from Daegu Subway. On occasion, student groups and civic groups have volunteered to work in the kitchen and greeted guests. Recently, women from multicultural families have come by and prepared a host of different cuisines, which have been met with a strong response.
Individuals can also apply to work as volunteer servers. The restaurant has sometimes been shorthanded, but shortly after requests were sent out on Twitter, complete strangers came by to help.
The clientele at the Hope Restaurants has consisted of people who want to enjoy a meal for 5,000 won (US$4.60) while being a part of something good. Families have come in groups, and clubs have held lunch meetings there. Some people come for the food and stay to wash dishes. The number of servings per day has gone from 30 in the early days to as many as 150 recently.
In July, the restaurants raised 44 million won (US$40,100), which was passed on periodically to workers laid off from 44 companies nationwide, including Ssangyong, JEI, Cort/Cor-tek, and Daelim Motor.
The founder of the restaurants continues to insist on anonymity.
“When you’re laid off, it isn’t just your income being cut off,” the founder said during an Oct. 22 interview with the Hankyoreh. “Your connection to the world is severed.”
The founder said they began the project to “offer some hope in the lives of people who have tried to put food on the table and ended up someone else’s food.”
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/557667.html
To increase awareness, the "Hope Restaurants" held an event on Oct. 26 in cooperation with the "Network for a World Without Layoffs and Temporary Workers". Titled “Rice for Hope Concert” it took place in front of Daehanmun, the main gate of Deoksu-gung(palace) in the center of Seoul:
Last Saturday(10.27) evening: At least 2000 labor activists gathered - despite heavy rainfall - in front of Seoul Stn.(in the center of the S. Korean capital city) for a "March for Hope" to demand "A World Without Irregular Employments"...
Here're just a few impressions from the event:
Related pieces:
☞ "Let's fight for a world without labor oppression!" (a play during the opening rally/video)
☞ 비정규직 10만 촛불 행진...2천 여명 모여 (NewsCham report, 10.28)
Solidarity with the Protest of Hyundai Workers in Ulsan!
Since 12 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...
...at the company's plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan to demand Hyundai give its irregular workers permanent stable employment contracts.
From last Friday(10.26) evening until the next morning about 1000 workers and supporting activists held a solidarity rally/culture festival in front of their sit-in struggle place... Here're just some impressions:
Related articles:
☞ Korean workers stage protest against Hyundai (IndustriALL Global Union, 10.25)
☞ Ulsan labor protest making a splash (Hankyoreh, 10.20)
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