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About 13,000 unionised rail workers launched a four-day strike on Thursday, their first such action in four years, which could cut passenger and cargo train operations by up to 60% amid soaring ...
1951 Mitsukoshi strike, strike by Mitsukoshi workers, the first strike by workers at a major department store in Japan. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] 1952 Japanese miners' strike [ 10 ] [ 11 ]
Great Workers' Struggle, mass wave of strikes in South Korea in 1987 demanding better working conditions and autonomous unions, inspired by the June Democratic Struggle. [3] 1988 Hyundai strike, 24-day strike by Hyundai Group workers in South Korea. [4] [5] 1988–89 Hyundai strike, 3-month strike by Hyundai workers in South Korea. [6] [7]
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
By Hyunsu Yim and Hyonhee Shin. SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea blew up sections of inter-Korean roads and rail lines on its side of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas on Tuesday ...
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South Korean KTX bullet train. The South Korean KTX Train Attendant Union Strike was a strike conducted by the KTX (Korea Train Express) female train attendants that began on March 1, 2006 in order to protest against the hiring practices of irregular workers. [1] This was the beginning of the longest struggle in South Korea thus far, lasting ...
South Korea’s top court ordered two Japanese companies to financially compensate more of their wartime Korean workers for forced labor, as it sided Thursday with its contentious 2018 verdicts on ...