The general strike by Samsung Electronics Service Worker’s Union entered today the 37th day! Here some impressions depicting today's activities: Agitprop in Seoul's central 'shopping district' Myeong-dong, popular by foreign tourists...
Last Thursday(6.19), the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union(KTU) was deprived of its status as a legal union(here you'll get more detailed info).
Today in the morning(KST) KTU announced during a press conference in Seoul...
...its next steps to fight for legality. According to the S. Korean media KTU promised an "all-out struggle against the gov't" to regain legal status, resp. until the following demands are met:
1. Withdrawal of the decision to turn the KTU into an illegal union!
2. Revise the current law on teachers' unions!
3. Implement a special law for the proper settlement of the Sewol ferry disaster!
4. Withdraw the nomination of Kim Myeong-soo as the new "education minister"!
Related updated English reports you'll get on LabourStart!
Meanwhile the S. Korean 'state authorities' announced "stern action against KTU"! "Vice Education Minister Na Seung-il vowed today to deal 'sternly' with liberal teachers who join, what he referred to as, 'illegal demonstrations' organized by KTU", according to Korea Times(6.23)... STAY TUNED!!
Last Friday(6.20) afternoon in Seoul's Seocho-dong: About 5,000 KCTU activists gathered in front of SAMSUNG's HQ to support the ongoing General Strike by the Samsung Electronics Service Worker’s Labor Union...
Meanwhile today the strike entered its 35th day... and - as you can see - the notorious TYPHOON SEASON is looming!!
Some more "detailed" info you'll get here(provided by yesterday's Korea Times). Meanwhile today's bourgeois (reactionary)JoongAng Ilbo expects that the Labor Ministry may soon start cracking down on KTU members!! And finally here you can(MUST!!) read an "analysis"('Teachers union again driven out into the streets') published by today's Hankyoreh.
The general strike by Samsung Electronics Service Worker’s Union entered today the 31st day! Here some impressions depicting today's activities in Seoul...
The general strike by Samsung Electronics Service Worker’s Labor Union...
...entered today its 30th day(here you'll get more detailed info in English)!! As of this writing about 1,000 workers continued their round-the-clock protest(related Korean pieces, incl. lots of pics, you'll get here, here and here) that includes sleeping on plastic sheets in front of both the Samsung's HQ in Seoul's Seocho-gu(district) and the Samsung Electronics HQ in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do(province)...
Today, in response to last week's POLICE TERROR against the residends of Miryang Village, about 80 activists from Miryang went to Seoul and staged protest rallies/press confernces in front of KEPCO HQ and the "National Police Agency"(related Korean reports you'll get here, here, here... and finally here you can watch a video). Here you can read a detailed Report in English!
Last Friday(6.13) afternoon in Seoul: As many as 10,000 workers, street vendors, peasants and urban poor gathered in front of the central rail station to protest collectively against the increasing exploitation and oppression in S. Korea(detailed reports in Korean, incl. lots of pics, you'll get here, here, here and here)...
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