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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 ...
2003 South Korean truckers' strikes [9] [10] 2005 Asiana Airlines strike, strike by Asiana Airlines pilots. [11] [12] South Korean KTX Train Attendant Union Strike; 2006 South Korean railroad strike; E-Land strike; 2008 US beef protest in South Korea; 2009 SsangYong strike, 77-day strike by SsangYong Motor workers. [13] [14]
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 ...
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 ...
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, prompting South Korea's military ...
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The Communist Party of Korea became more aggressive by insisting on a strategy of "new tactics": instigating a public struggle, and launching a general strike. [5] The strike was controlled by the National Council of Korean Workers. The council's first strike began on September 23, by over 7,000 railway workers in Busan. About 40,000 railway ...
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.