Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- Leading members of 67 trade unions
of the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and other workers
affiliated to them staged a protest in Seoul on Jan. 16 in demand of the
settlement of the issues of labor including layoff, abolition of
part-time jobs and a halt to the action to disband trade unions.
Prior to the action, they held a press conference.
Speakers there described the five years of Lee Myung Bak's office as
a period of bitter tears for the workers as they were subject to
lay-off, detention and crackdown, adding that they were forced to live
like slaves under the present regime.
A great number of workers were fired to roam the streets, and some
of them staged a sit-in strike on the top of steel tower in demand of
their vital rights and committed suicides in protest against the layoff,
they said, and went on:
However, the authorities remain a passive onlooker to these tragedies.
They expressed the determination to stage the second and third
strikes in case the authorities refuse to accept their demands.
At the end of the press conference the workers staged the sit-in strike on the spot. -0-
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