Police bully striking South Korean railway workers
Posted by ac on December 3rd, 2009
“Managers at state rail monopoly Korail walked out of talks with union representatives last week, branding their opposition to a planned pay cut and demand for the reinstatement of fired members “unreasonable.”"
“The rail strike paralysed 96 per cent of cargo train service last week, with only 11 out of 300 daily cargo trains running normally.”
“The country’s two umbrella union groups, the 500,000-strong Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and the 700,000-strong Federation of Korean Trade Unions have vowed to kick off a joint strike next month unless the pro-US government government changes its “anti-labour” stance by the end of this month.”
