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The women did not stop the strike. KORAIL fired 280 crew members who refused to rejoin the company. [citation needed] In May 2006, approximately 80 female workers were arrested for occupying the KORAIL office in Seoul. [3] In January 2007, KTX union leaders organized a sit-in at the Seoul central station, which continued on and off until July 2018.
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 ...
It lasted from March 1 to March 4, when the union called a halt to the strike after most of the workers voluntarily returned to work. The number of striking workers fluctuated throughout the strike, but reached over 16,000 workers at its peak. During the strike, Korail's passenger service was decreased by 60%, on both national and Seoul Subway ...
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Most of the railroad's employees are members of the Korean Railway Workers' Union, which is frequently at odds with KORAIL management. Strikes, such as the South Korean railroad strike of 2006, are not uncommon. In December 2013, 23,000–100,000 union members and friends protested the privatization of KORAIL in Seoul. [9]
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The 2013 railroad strike in South Korea was a 22 days general strike by members of the Korea Railroad Corporation Union of Korean Railway Workers' Union and Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, Federation of Korean Trade Unions in South Korea between December 9 and December 30, against the establishment of the KTX from Suseo's subsidiary company of Korail.
Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, choking off the flow of many of America’s ...