SINCE ONE YEAR: CHIMNEY SIT-IN STRUGGLE IN GUMI

In January 2013, Star Chemical shut down operations at its factory in Gumi, Gyeongsanbuk-do(Province), citing poor business results. A month later, the company announced that it was going out of business and notified the remaining 29 workers that they would be terminated. Some of these workers received compensation and settled with the company on May 26, 2014. Cha Gwang-ho was one of 11 workers who rejected the deal. The night after the settlement was signed, he climbed up a 45-meter-tall smokestack. Today, exactly one year passed since he started his sit-in struggle(*)...

 

 

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