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This section contains articles on the trade union mouvement and labor struggles as well as more general articles on the labor, people’s movements and the Left. Specific articles on the antiwar, peasant, etc., movements or the Left parties are posted in other sections.
KGEU President’s New Year’s Message Let us struggle together to strengthen the public character of administration and to defend the livelihood of the 950 thousand government workers! Fellow members! Amidst the intense struggle by our union, to defend our livelihood and the our democratic (…)
Dear allies and friends,
Greetings from the Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants’ Trade Union. We are a union formed by and for migrant workers in South Korea. Our members come from many countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, the Philippines, the U.S., Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
We write to inform (…)
KGEU National Congress: Fighting back instead of stepping back under repression.
In spite of harsh repression on KGEU, the union delegates resolved to remain out of the special law, which is clearly infringing government employees’ basic labour rights. ’The Act on Establishment and Operation (…)
It was another year of discontent as protests by workers and activists against the government’s attempts to reform the labor and education sectors, as well as sign a free trade agreement with the United States, threatened to engulf the country in a sea of civil unrest.
Month after month, (…)
On November 30, one day after the KCTU had launched another full day General Strike in an effort to urge the South Korean government to address its four main issues which included the call for a stop to the passage of the Irregular Workers Bill, the bill was swiftly passed by the National (…)
While KGEU branches and chapters are continuing their sit-in protests in tents and container boxes that have been set up at municipal offices all over the country, the KGEU national office is drawing up a plan of action to start retaliating against government repression on a national level. In (…)
More than a hundred workers belonging to the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) staged a rally this morning in front of the South Korean embassy in Makati [Manila, Philippines] to condemn in the strongest terms possible the South Korean government’s dispersal and crack down on organizing (…)
KOREAN CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS (KCTU) On Wednesday, November 15, 2006, trade unions, labor rights groups, and other civil society organizations in over thirty countries such as Australia, Sweden, Germany, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, United States, Canada, Brazil, and South Africa (…)
KCTU Launches a General Strike!
November 15, 2006: Four-hour “Warning-Strike”---200,000 trade unionists to participate.
November 22, 2006: Full-pledged General Strike Over 50,000 workers from every industry across South Korea convened in City Hall in downtown Seoul to participate in the (…)
Call on the South Korean Government to: Stop Trade Union Repression Implement ILO Recommendations Recognize Irregular Workers’ Rights Reform Labour Laws in line with International Standards and not the Proposed “Roadmap” Despite the international communities cries calling on the South Korean (…)
KCTU_KGEU_Complaint_2006-2(final).doc name : KGEU date : 2006/11/15 file : 3766784 K
October 24th, 2006
Juan Somavia Director-General International Labour Organisation
Dear Mr. Somavia,
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and the Korean Government Employees¡¯ Union (…)
CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION: CONDEMN GOVERNMENT REPRESSION AGAINST FUNDAMENTAL TRADE UNION RIGHTS IN SOUTH KOREA JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON NOVEMBER 15TH! SOLIDARITY WITH SOUTH KOREAN WORKERS! SUPPORT THE KCTU GENERAL STRIKE! SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT : STOP TRADE (…)
A minister of the Korean Government is likeliest to be elected as the next UN Secretary-General. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Republic of Korea, Mr. BAN Ki-moon, is preparing for his acceptance speech at the UN General Assembly on Friday.
The Korean Government has made great (…)
As of October 10, 2006, in total the local offices of 125 out of 251 KGEU chapters have been forcefully closed down. Of those 5 local offices were closed down even before September 22. The union offices closed are usually sealed off with iron plates or bars welded. 101 members from KGEU and (…)
This declaration was adopted at the Assembly of Social Movements meeting held in Brussels, September 28th-October 1st 2006.
To Korean Government
President Roh Moo-Hyun
Cheong Wa Dae (office of the President)
Republic of Korea
As of September 28, several offices of the Korean (…)
Your solidarity is needed!
Today is the 4th day of the crack down on the KGEU local offices. 111 local offices were forcefully closed down nation wide. Every working day has seen the violent attacks on the union offices and the arrests of the union members since last Friday. The riot police (…)
The Union Will Fight Back! Monday morning saw the restart of forceful closing down of the KGEU offices. From about 06:40 this morning, the riot police were deployed around the KGEU office in Boryeong, Chungnam-do(province). The union members who had been holding a sit-in protest inside the (…)
KGEU members struggle all around the country against inhumane and barbaric raids by local governments and riot police.
Korean Government Employees’ Union7th Fl. 139 Youngdeungpo-2ga,Youngdeungpo-gu Seoul 150-982, KoreaTel:+82-2-2631-1948 / Fax:+82-2-2631-1949 /http://inter.kgeu.org kgeu (…)
KGEU Breaking News - September 22nd, 2006 [URGENT] KGEU offices being attacked now! The KGEU Guro-gu(municipality) Chapter office was attacked and closed down in this morning. At 06:10 am, hundreds of specially-hired thugs stormed into the KGEU local office at Guro-gu in Seoul with riot cops (…)
The KGEU held a mass rally On September 9th in Changwon, Gyeongnam-do (province, south western part of Korea), where the KGEU Gyeongnam Regional Branch office were forcefully closed down on August 30, while the ILO Asian Regional Meeting was held in Busan, Korea.
The Ministry of Government (…)
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