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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.
Updates (September 2012)
KPTU Cargo Truckers Solidarity Division concludes Strike
On June 25, the Cargo Truckers Solidarity Division of the Korean Public & Social Service and Transportation Workers Union .KPTU) went on strike demanding an increase in freight rates, the waving of fuel (…)
In November of last year, the Korean Labor Unions Confederation (KLUC) was founded as a so-called ’third national center’ in South Korea next to the progressive Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and the conservative Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU). The KLUC’s president, (…)
On June 4, 2012, the South Korean Ministry of Employment and Labor MoL) announced a new policy entitled “Policy for Improvement in Foreign Workers’ Change of Workplaces and Prevention of Broker Intervention”. This policy, which went into effect on August 1, changes the procedures used by local (…)
The Violence Commercialized: Capital’s Private Army – Contactus
At 5 a.m. on July 27, 2012, the opening day of the London Olympics, 200 armed men raided the SJM factory in Ansan where members of the Korean Metal Workers’ Union SJM Chapter were staging a sit-in protest. A female union member (…)
, by LIEM Wol-san, PSSP, RIAWM
Dear Friends,
The Research Institute for Alternative Workers Movements supports the struggle of migrant workers in South Korea for basic labor rights, including the right to freedom association. The RIAWM international department provides assistance to the Migrants Trade Union, an important (…)
, by MTU, Petition / Sign-on Letter
Target: ROK Minister of Justice, ROK Minister of Employment and Labor, Seoul Immigration Service Region: South Korea Web site: http://mtu.or.kr/
Petition Background (Preamble):
Michel Catuira served as the President of the Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants Trade Union (MTU) from 2009 to (…)
, by PSSP
Ssangyong Motor Workers Continue their Struggle for Reinstatement
RIAWM International Department
After more than 1000 days of struggle, workers dismissed from Ssangyong Motor’s Pyeongtaek factory in 2009 have yet to be granted negotiations with the company’s Indian management. Workers were (…)
, by PSSP
Dear friends,
The case described below has gotten a great deal of attention S. Korea and now around the world. The victim in the case, Ms. Park, has been struggle for redress for many months. The coalition supporting here is hoping that international solidarity will help make it possible to (…)
, by PARK Hyun-jung, The Kyunghyang Daily News
The Hope Bus Campaign is establishing itself as an icon of resistance to employment anxieties that are threatening worker and working-class livelihoods. The Hope Bus Campaign was launched with the goal of supporting embattled union members and Kim Jin-suk, a member of the Busan chapter of the (…)
, by PSSP
Greeting friends and allies,
I am writing to ask for your support for 10 Vietnamese workers unjustly arrested in South Korea simply for demanding better conditions. This is a clear case of the criminalization of documented migrant workers in South Korea and of labor repression. Background (…)
, by AE Lim Yun
AE LIM YUN is an activist in Solidarity for the Abolition of Contingent Work, in Seoul, South Korea. At age 30, she holds a doctorate in labor law and — a contingent worker herself — works as an instructor in labor law at several universities, among them Seoul National University. She and her (…)
, by KCTU
International Day of Solidarity Action “Egyptian People’s Struggle is right!” “KCTU fully supports the protest of workers and people of Egypt!” The Egyptian peoples struggle against the 30 year of pro-U.S. dictatorship has been continuing for more than 15 days. On February 8, KCTU joined the (…)
, by Committee to Support the GM Daewoo Irregular Workers
Dear Friends and Comrades, We write to bring you encouraging news. On February 2, one day before the Lunar New Year, the management of GM Daewoo signed an agreement committing to reinstate all 15 members of the GM Daewoo Irregular Workers Chapter of the Korean Mental Workers Union who were (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
See the petition below.
14th January 2011
On 2 September 2007, irregular workers employed by in-house subcontractors at the GM Daewoo Auto & Technology Company (GM Daewoo) factory in Bupyeong established the GM Daewoo Irregular Workers Chapter of the Korean Metal Workers Union (KMWU), (…)
, by QUINES Roddy
January 14, 2011 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — A rally by irregular cleaning staff at Hongik University in Seoul took place on January 11, 2011. The workers were protesting against their dismissal on January 3 for forming a union on December 1. They were also demanding (…)
, by Committee to Support the GM Daewoo Irregular Workers
Please show your support for GM Daewoo irregular workers! Send messages of solidarity to: dwbi jinbo.net and psspawm gmail.com.
Send letters of protest demanding GM Daewoo negotiate with the workers and address their demands to: GM Daewoo President Mike Arcamone, 199-1 Cheongcheon-dong, (…)
, by KIM Chris
Chris Kim reports on strikes and factory occupations at Hyundai Motor Company in South Korea, which is building solidarity among regular and irregular workers, and among workers internationally.
December 16, 2010 — Socialist Worker (US) — “Even a worm will squirm when it is being stepped on” (…)
, by HAN Sang-hee, Hankyoreh, International Metalworkers’ Federation
Harsh retribution
Female subcontractors that maintain and clean school facilities in Hongik University, Seoul, engage in a sit-in demonstration in front of the president’s office, demanding a meeting with the president and withdrawal of dismissals, Jan. 3.
Around 170 subcontractors in their (…)
, by LIEM Wol-san
Yesterday (December 9), members of the Hyundai Motors Irregular Workers Chapter of the Korean Metal Workers Union (KMWU) left factory 1 of the Hyundai Plant in Ulsan. Their departure marked the end of a 25-day long occupation, which they had endured without adequate food, water or bedding. (…)
, by LIEM Wol-san
On November 15, some 40 temporary workers at the Hyundai Motors Plan in Ulsan City, Southern Gyeongsan Province, began an occupation at the seat factory, one of five buildings on the plant’s premise. These workers were formally employed by the in-house subcontractor Dongseong Inc., which had (…)
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