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Y'day in Taiwan's capital city Taipei: Activists from the S. Korean HYDIS labour union, continuing since more than a week the 3rd "Taipei Protest", and their Chinese supporters were confronted with the Taiwanese state "authority", i.e. they were attacked by the cops(here you'll get a report in Chinese, incl. lots of pics)...

Today's (bourgeois)Taipei Times reported the following: Two workers from South Korea’s Hydis Technologies were arrested yesterday after a demonstration outside the Presidential Office Building in Taipei(here you can watch a video report published by KMWU) to protest against their Taiwanese employers...

For the past 10 days, nearly a dozen South Korean union representatives have camped outside the personal residence of Yuen Foong Yu (YFY) Group chairperson Ho Shou-chuan. On the front steps of Ho’s residence, the workers set up a memorial shrine...

...to former Hydis union leader Bae Jae-hyoung, who committed suicide last month after reportedly receiving legal threats from Hydis management...

Dressed in a black robe, Bae’s widow, Lee Mi-ra... 

...carried a portrait of her husband as she marched toward the Presidential Office Building during yesterday’s demonstration. She was accompanied by dozens of Taiwanese labor activists and students, who came to express their support...(the full article you can read here)

But despite the police violence the Korean activists and their supporters vowed to continue their protests outside Ho’s residence until talks with YFY Group take place. “We will not leave Taiwan until we have a meeting with Yuen Foong Yu,” Korean Confederation of Trade Unions regional branch leader Lee Sang-aun said..."

Related articles in Korean you'll get here and here. Updated reports in Chinese you'll get on LabourStart.

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"World No Tobacco Day"(WNTD) is observed around the world every year on May 31...(Wikipedia) But while the date in most of the countries passed almost unnoticed, in North Korea at least the state media(KCTV/RodongShinmun) celebrated WNTD.

Today's KCNA: Choe Suk Hyon, an official of the Ministry of Publish Health, told that no-smoking campaign has gained momentum throughout the country. She said: "Smoking has been banned at educational and healthcare institutions"...

And as you can see the new "Dear Leader", as always, is leading by example...

On the occasion of last year's WNTD I posted these pics: Our "Dear Leader", "Respected Marshal" "Comrade" Kim Jong-un is the one and only activist, representing the "National No-smoking Campaign"... 

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Yesterday's Hankyoreh reported the following: "...evidence has emerged that the National Intelligence Service (NIS) under former director Won Sei-hoon attempted to strip the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union (KTU) of its official status and to force labor unions to leave the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU)..."(the full article you can read here)

Related article:
☞ Ruling favors ban on teachers' union (K. Times, 5.28)

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HYDIS workers' 3rd "Taiwan Struggle Tour"

Yesterday in Taiwan's capital city Taipei: Activists from the S. Korean Hydis labour union staged their "3rd Taipei Protest"...

...(here and here you'll get reports, related to the "2nd Taipei Protest") over factory layoffs...

One of the S. Korean activists reported y'day the following:

Immolated former Hydis union leader's bereaved family, union colleagues and Tawianese supporters set up a memorial shrine to remember BAE Jae Hyoung in front of YFY Chairman HO Shou Chuan's house today...

Taiwanese workers and human rights groups joined with South Korean Hydis workers and bereaved family of labor martyr BAE Jae Hyoung to call for the company to engage in dialogue. 

However, the company continues to refuse the bereaved and workers' calls to engage in dialogue toward rescinding the plant closure, mass dismissals and for measures for the dead Hydis former union leader's family.

The press conference participants marched to YFY Chairman HO, Shou Chuan's house calling for the company to step up and engage in dialogue...

To heed dead union leader BAE Jae Hyoung's last wishes "continue your solidarity so the Hydis struggle can end in victory," the group set up a memorial shrine with Bae's photo in front of Mr Ho's house, awaiting a sincere apology and change of heart toward willingness to engage in dialogue in front of the dead BAE Jae Hyoung...

Today's (bourgeois)Taipei Times wrote: Union representatives from South Korea’s Hydis Technologies Co Ltd yesterday gathered outside the Yuen Foong Yu Group (YFY) building on their latest visit to Taipei to protest the dismissal of more than 300 workers from a factory in Icheon...(the complete article you can read here)

Related reports in Korean you'll get here, here and here. Related Chinese reports you'll get here and here.

A lot of more pics​, depicting yesterday's activities in Taipei you'll get here. And finally here, here and here you can watch videos, depicting yesterday's protest events in Taipei, staged by Hydis labour union activists.

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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(*)...

* More detailed info/related articles you'll get here:
☞ Labor activist up a smokestack breaks a record... (Hankyoreh, 4.02)
☞ 불 꺼진 공장 내려다보며 고공농성 1년, 봄은 왔을까 (참세상, 5.22)
☞ 굴뚝 위 1년 ‘슬픈 신기록’…‘먹튀’가 할퀸 상처 (한겨레, 5.25)

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