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-

S. Korean Police Searches Houses of Those Concerned of Railway Workers Union

Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- The south Korean puppet police searched houses of six persons concerned of the Railway Workers Union on April 29 on charges of the violation of the fascist "Security Law".
    The fascist police committed such violence for the reason that they formed an organization with the "aim to benefit enemy", sought to expand "forces following the north" and manufactured and distributed "copies of literature benefiting enemy", the ones praising the north.
    The police stormed houses of those concerned of the union in Seoul, Inchon, Taejon, Pusan and Kyonggi Province and confiscated computers, various documents, cell phones, etc.
    The south Korean puppet group is made up of traitors blinded by confrontation with fellow countrymen as it is kicking up hysteria for confrontation with the DPRK by groundlessly linking even the union with the DPRK. -0-

Ssangryong Motors Incident Indicts

"A 30 meter tall transmission tower is charged with a high voltage current. A makeshift building of a little over 2 square meters at the height of 20 meters looks quite cold.

The dismissed workers of the Ssangryong Motors are on stay-in strike there despite the cold of winter. Cooked rice boxes provided by pulley enable them to remain alive for 42 days. There is a good reason why they stage such a struggle."

That is part of a south Korean radio report on stay-in strike of workers of the Ssangryong Motors on a steel tower to mark the New Year.

Then, what made them greet the New Year with a fierce struggle in the cold winter not in hope and delight?

In May 2009 workers of the Ssangryong Motors went on a general strike against the company side's plan to enforce a lay-off.

It was a justifiable struggle to defend their vital rights against the arbitrariness of the enterprising body.

The Lee Myung Bak group, however, brutally suppressed the strikers in favor of the company side seeking only profits.

The group of traitors cut off the supply of food, gas and water for workers and perpetrated a bloody crackdown on the innocent workers on the strength of fascist gangsters heavily armed with clubs, iron bars and electric guns.

In the end several workers were killed and many others were injured or taken in custody.

That is how the Ssangryong Motors incident took place.

The Lee group caused the incident and deteriorated it systematically.

The conservative ruling quarters on the side of a handful of owners of big businesses shifted the blame for the economic crisis onto the workers and encouraged lay-off, mercilessly suppressing the workers resisting to it.

They also charged the workers of their struggle for vital rights and committed a despicable destruction of labor unions.

At the end of his tenure of office traitor Lee transferred the settlement of the incident to the next regime, pretending that he is not answerable for it.

The Ssangryong Motors incident shows that it is foolish to want something from the puppet conservatives, servers of big businesses and the south Korean workers should resolutely put an end to the misrule of the traitors if they are to lead a worthwhile life.

Pok Un Hui

Suppression of Trade Unions in south Korea protested against

 S. Korean Authorities' Fascist Suppression of KCTU Protested
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions issued a statement on Jan. 17 in protest against the puppet authorities for their fascist suppression of workers.
    The statement accused the authorities on Jan. 16 of hurling police into an operation to indiscriminately crack down on the workers' sit-in strike demanding a solution to the labor issues including layoff, abolition of part-time jobs and a halt to the destruction of trade unions.
    Through this crackdown they wounded strikers and arrested 8 persons including the head of the organizational department of the Metal Workers' Union, it noted.
    The KCTU can no longer remain an onlooker to the present regime's brutal suppression, it warned, calling for intensified actions against the fascist crackdown upon workers. -0-
 

S. Korean Authorities' Suppression of Labor Movement Protested

 Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) --The Emergency Situation Council to Urgently Cope with Layoff, Part-time Jobs and Destruction of Trade Unions in south Korea held a press conference around Kwanghwamun, Seoul on Jan. 17 at which it denounced the puppet authorities for their suppression of the labor movement.
    At the press conference the organization branded the death of many workers as murders by the regime and capital.
    Enterprise owners, backed by power, are pressurizing those workers affiliated to trade unions, dismissing and suppressing them, the organization charged.
    Even the regime, conservative media and courts are joining in this suppressive campaign, it noted.
    Broad segments of people will turn out in large-scale actions in case the authorities turn down the demand for a halt to the suppression of the labor movement and do not take responsible steps, it warned. -0-