GFTUK Supports S. Korean People's Struggle

Pyongyang, November 22 (KCNA) -- The actions of workers and people of other strata against the south Korean group of traitors' wholesale fascist crackdown upon the progressive democratic forces and its moves to revive "the yusin" dictatorship are now mounting like an active volcano.
    Extremely taken aback by these actions, the puppet group is hurling more than 10 000 police force into brutally cracking down upon participants in peaceful demonstrations with water cannons. But organizations of workers and people of other strata are intensifying their protest actions against this suppression.
    A spokesman for the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea in a statement issued on Friday said that the resistance of the people is an eruption of the pent-up grudge and resentment at the remnants of "yusin" and the Park Geun Hye regime working with blood shot eyes to bring back the most evil era of "yusin" dictatorship to south Korea in total disregard of elementary democratic demands.
    No repressive regimes in south Korea kicked up such indiscriminate repressive campaign against the labor movement and progressive democratic forces to get rid of the worst ruling crisis, bringing to light their true colors as fascist ones as the present conservative regime, the statement said, and went on:
    The south Korean puppet forces have gone desperate in their moves to violate democracy and revive "yusin" dictatorship despite the strong denunciation of the public at home and abroad. This is aimed to nip in the bud progress and democracy in south Korea and thus prop up the pro-U.S. unpopular ruling system and lay a foundation for their long-term office.
    It is shame and disaster for the nation that "yusin" dictatorship is being revived in south Korea though it was sternly punished by the popular masses decades ago.
    The working class in the north will positively support the workers and other people in the south in their sacred struggle for a democratic new society and genuine new life, it stressed. -0-

S. Korean Worker Commits Suicide

 Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) -- A worker of a company under Samsung Electronics of south Korea was found dead in Jiksan township, Chonan City, South Chungchong Province, according to the south Korean paper Hangyore on Nov. 1.
    He opened to public the data laying bare the crimes of the manager of the company some days ago in protest against the company side's worsening maltreatment of the workers.
    Displeased with this, the company side tormented him, putting all sorts of pressure on him. Not content with this, it watched and inspected him under the pretext of "formation of trade union".
    The Samsung Electronics Branch of the Metal Trade Union held that the company side's increased pressure and dire destitution drove the worker to death. -0-

S. Korean Authorities' Moves to Stamp out Jongyojo under Fire

Pyongyang, November 2 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppet authorities have gone to extremes in their fascist moves to revive the "yusin" dictatorship in south Korea.
A spokesman for the Educational and Cultural Workers' Union of Korea (ECWUK) Saturday made public a statement in this regard.
The statement said:
Some time ago, the puppet Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Ministry of Education took such a tyrannical action as formally depriving the Teachers Union (Jongyojo) of its legitimate status as a trade union under the pretext that it backed the teachers who had been laid-off for conducting just educational activities for democratization of society and kept them affiliated to the union.
According to it, city and provincial offices of education in south Korea started enforcing the "law" to stamp out Jongyojo.
The ECWUK Central Committee denounces the brutal suppression of Jongyojo as an action of suppressing the inviolable democratic education and a hideous fascist action to build "yusin" dictatorial system by eliminating the democratic forces in south Korea.
Jongyojo has made efforts to combat sycophancy towards the U.S. and hostility towards compatriots and achieve social democracy and national unity, conducting education to help the youth and children have a correct view on history and consciousness of reunification after singling out "education for the nation, democracy and humanization" as its programme.
The present chief executive blustered long ago that it is "impossible to leave children to Jongyojo", branding it as "an entity as harmful as a noxious insect". As soon as she took office she kicked off fascist suppression of it to stamp out it.
The Koreans will never pardon the conservative group which suppresses the educators teaching justice and truth and tramples down the inviolable education by enforcing fascist dictatorial rule. The group is bound to meet a shameful fiasco for such outrageous action against the nation and democracy. -0-

South Korean Trade Unions threatened with repression

If your union allowed retired workers, or workers who were fired from their jobs, to be members -- would your government delegalise your union?

That's exactly what's happening in South Korea, where both the government employees union and the teachers' union face the imminent threat of deregistration.The teachers have been given until October 23 to change their constitution or else face delegalisation.This is a flagrant violation of international labour standards and  represents yet another attempt by the South Korean government to break public sector unions.They will not succeed.The Education International, representing teachers unions around the world, together with Public Services International, the International Trade Union Confederation and three Korean unions have called for a massive global online campaign of protest.This is very urgent -- if we don't act, the Korean teachers will no longer have a legal trade union by October 23.Please click here to send off your message today:http://labourstart.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=7711801a5e&e=7764de1f7fIf you share this link with your friends, family and fellow union members on email, Twitter and Facebook, it will help spread the word.Let's send thousands of messages today to the South Korean president and let's stop the attempt to crush public sector unions.Thanks very much.

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Plenary Meeting of General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea Held

 Pyongyang, September 18 (KCNA) -- The 74th plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea took place here on Wednesday.
    Present there were members and alternate members of the Central Committee and officials of union organizations in Pyongyang and local areas.
    They discussed the tasks to be carried out by trade union organizations to thoroughly implement the important tasks set forth by supreme leader

Kim Jong Un in his work "Let Us Add Eternal Brilliance to Comrade Kim Jong Il's Great Idea and Achievements of the Songun Revolution".
    Hyon Sang Ju, chairman of Central Committee of the Federation, made a report, to be followed by speeches.
    The reporter and speakers said that Kim Jong Un clarified the sacred Songun revolutionary history and tradition and set forth the tasks and ways for glorifying the revolutionary idea and feats of Generalissimo Kim Jong Il.
    They called for regarding Kim Jong Un's work as important guidelines, glorifying Kim Jong Il's Songun revolutionary idea and feats and contributing to bringing earlier the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche, the cause of Songun. -0-

S. Korean Authorities Accused of Suppressing GEU

Pyongyang, September 18 (KCNA) -- The Government Employees' Union (GEU) of south Korea held a press conference outside the "government" building in Seoul on Sept. 16 in protest against the puppet authorities' crackdown upon the union.
    The speakers accused the "government" and police authorities of committing a search operation against the Kwangju Headquarters of the union on Sept. 10 on the charge of conducting information activities against the Intelligence Service's interference in election.
    This proves that the regime's suppression has gone beyond tolerance limit, an indication of suppression of freedom of speech, they said.
    Declaring that they would never yield to the government's clampdown, they demanded it stop at once its suppression of the GEU.
    They will join civic and social organizations and labor organizations in their strong actions against the regime's illegal suppression of the union, they warned. -0-