S. Korea

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Apr 25 10:12:47 PDT 2000


Elections do not a democracy make. The U.S. supports the South Korean dictatorship. Where is the Congressional outrage at this predawn raid ? Why not sanctions ? The U.S. military is bulwarking this Nazism.

Where is the AFL to protest this anti-labor government ?

CB

Forward from Labor-y:

URGENT ACTION ALERT FROM SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - TRADE UNIONISTS ARRESTED

*** Please copy this message to other mailing lists; print it out and post it on bulletin boards in factories and union offices; pass it on to friends, colleagues, journalists, political leaders. ***

We've just received an urgent alert from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions informing us that today at 3:40 in the morning, riot police broke into the office of the Daewoo Motors Workers Union in Pupyung, near Seoul. They arrested everyone there and continue to hold in custody all the top union leaders.

They are accused of the "crime" of leading a militant struggle to save the jobs of Korean auto workers.

The full text of the KCTU statement is now available on the LabourStart website at:

http://www.labourstart.org/korea/kctu250400.shtml

For background on the struggle at Daewoo, see:

http://www.labourstart.org/korea/



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