[asia-apec 298] Strike Urgent Report #8

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>Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 02:34:21 +0800
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>Subject: Strike Urgent Report #8
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>Strike Urgent Report #8 
>                            - edited on January. 7, 1997, at 23:00 
>                       Forth day of the general strike in THE SECOND WAVE 
>
>The "Necktie Unit" stands together again! 
>     The 'necktie unit' which took the considerable role in the  June
>Struggle in 1987, began 
>     to join the ranks of the striking workers.
>     The 27  security  corporation unions   and 2  insurance companies   of
>the  workplaces 
>     affiliated with the Clerical Workers  went into the  partial strike,
>and  other workplaces linked  up the 
>     strike in the form of 'extraordinary executive meeting' or 'a sitdown
>strike of union executives'.
>     They took part  in the  general meeting wearing  the black  ribbon
>marked "funeral  of 
>democracy" 
>     and exclaimed "the nullification of the bad law"
>     Of 110   union-affiliated Korean   Federation of   Professional and
>Technician Unions 
>containing 110 
>     unions, 62 unions began on the partial strike.
>     And unionized workers of  public broadcasters including MBC,  KBS, EBS,
>CBS started 
>on the 
>     general strike at 5  this morning, January  7. The four  major
>broadcasting unions held 
>"the 
>     national broadcast workers meeting" at the 'democratic plaza' in the
>Korea Broadcasting 
>System at 
>     4 o'clock this  afternoon. Broadcasting  workers' strikes  will also
>be joined  by some 
>20,000 
>     unionized workers at 40-odd hospitals across the nation. 
>     On the other hand, the  union of Seoul Metropolitan  Subway Corp. had
>gone  on strike 
>but 
>     suspended it by union  leaders in consideration of  the inconveniences
>to citizen  in cold 
>weather. 
>     But in relation with  the policy to  cope with the strike  legally by
>government,  KTCU 
>warned the 
>     unions of Subway and Korea Telecom  reserving the strike temporarily
>would rush  into 
>overall 
>     strike if the government exercises of public power by arresting union
>leaders. 
>{{
>}}Prosecution Summons 10 KCTU Leaders; struggle for defence is needed! 
>     The prosection launched a crackdown on union leaders yesterday as the
>Seoul District 
>     Prosecuters's Office issued summons for 10 leaders of the militant
>Korean Confederation 
>of Trade 
>     Unions, including KCTU chairman Kwon Young-kil, who have spread
>nationwide strikes 
>since 
>     late December.
>     Prosecuters also issued summons for about  40 other union leaders in
>Ulsan,  Changwon 
>and some 
>     other industrial cities. In the Summons, prosecuters ordered the union
>leaders to submit 
>     themselves for questioning before respective local prosecution offices
>by 10 a.m. today.
>     Prosecuters warned that they  will obtain arrest warrants  from the
>court  to arrest the 
>union leaders 
>     if they reject summons. The prosecution's action came as tens of
>thousands  of workers 
>started a 
>     fresh round of nationwide strikes over a new labor law which the
>Assembly Dec.26.
>     In fact,  there dispose  the police  forces near   the Mungdong
>Cathedral  strengthening 
>inspections, 
>     and it is a dominant analysis that the oppressive and unexpected
>bearing showed by the 
>police in 
>     the recent  rally is  a use  for seizing  the chance  of largescale
>crack down.  As the 
>countermeasure 
>     against this, it  is necessary  for the  defense party  made up  of
>labors,  students and 
>citizens to 
>     organize immediately. 
>
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>     Published by the Telecommunication Taskgroup for General Strike (TTGS)
>     Distributed through Online BBS Service and Internet twice a day
>     Phone : +82-2-855-1913
>     E-mail : rys at member.sing-kr.org
>     Homepage : http://kpd.sing-kr.org/strike 
>
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