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"The heroic and bitter struggle of the Ssangyong workers has been well documented over the last few years, but the struggle for justice is still continuing. This month a delegation of dismissed Ssangyong Korean workers went to Mumbai, India in an effort to pressure the Indian owner of Ssangyong to abide by previous agreements. The Koreans are using this trip - called 'Plane of Hope' - to meet a number of local unions and labour organisations to forge greater links..."(aawl, 9.29)
Two days ago(9.23) Yonhap reported the following: Thousands of unionized workers across the country walked out of their workplaces Wednesday to protest the implementation of a trilateral commission's recent deal on labor reform. About 5,000 unionized workers from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), one of South Korea's two labor umbrella groups, joined the one-day strike opposing the plan to reform the labor market in what they call a management-friendly way, the Namdaemun Police Station said...
In the interests of clarity: There wasn't any KCTU strike - let alone a "general strike" - on that day(except the ongoing wage dispute @Hyundai Motor)!! KCTU's so-called "9.23 General Strike" was just a 'struggle' rally/demo(*) "to protest the implementation of a trilateral commission's recent deal on labor reform", joined by 10,000(according to the independent media/4,500~5,500 according to the cops and the S.K. bourgeois media) labour activists...
But it was a "wonderful opportunity" for the S. Korean 'authorities', represented by the riot cops, to go hog wild...
* Here you can watch a documentary[in three parts (#1, #2 ) depicting KCTU's "9.23 General Strike" from the beginning(KTU activists arrested in front of the Nat'l Assembly) untill the end in front of the Sejeong Culture Center]...
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