Last Wednesday(7.20): About 100,000 KCTU members went on a "general strike" against the regressive labour "reform", mass layoffs in the Shipbuilding industry, unilateral decision of minimum wage, excessive repression against union activities and for "Chaebol-Conglomerates's accountability". KCTU staged the strike rallies in 13 different cities...

Here just some impressions, depicting the strike rally in Seoul's Yeouido, nearby the Nat'l Assambly, where about 11,000 KCTU activists from the capital region(Seoul, Gyeonggi-do) and Gangwon-do(province) staged their protest...

 

 

Related articles in Korean, incl. regional reports, you'll get here, here, here and here.

PS. Short before(the "general strike") KCTU joined the struggle against the THAAD deployment on the Korean Peninsula...