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The Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union (KTU, Korean: 전국교직원노동조합), also known as Jeongyojo (Korean: 전교조; acronym for KTU in Korean language), is a labor union of teachers in South Korea. The organization has 77,000 members [1] (down from 94,000) among the 360,000 public and private school teachers in the country.
The Korean Federation of Teachers' Associations (KFTA, Korean: 한국교원단체총연합회) is the largest and most traditional professional organization and teachers' union in South Korea, with more than 120,000 members. It means 30% of the Korean educators are KFTA's members.
There are two national trade union centres in South Korea: the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU) and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU). In 2007, the FKTU had 1,153,863 members (41.1% of trade unionists in Korea), the KCTU had 1,134,056 members (40.4%), and 516,714 workers were members of independent trade unions affiliated ...
The catalyst. The unified stand by the country’s teaching staff comes after the suicide of a first-grade teacher, in her early 20s, in July. She was found dead in her classroom in Seoul.
In a survey by the Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union, more than 60% of the 6,243 respondents said they had either personally been reported for child abuse or know another teacher who had.
Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union; Korean Women Workers Association; M. Migrants' Trade Union in Korea; W. Women in unions in South Korea This page was last ...
Amid the teachers' growing anger, South Korea’s conservative government launched a task force earlier this month to explore new education-related laws that would reflect the opinions of teachers ...
The first labor union was established under colonial Japanese rule in 1910, and the Seongjin Stevedores Union consisted of 47 workers. [2] Unions were limited in scope at this time due to their small size, [2] and were limited to occupational- and regional-based unions. [2]