MEDIA
ADVISORY
January 9, 2014
Contact: Gerry Rivera @ 09165047751
Labor groups to picket Korean embassy
WHAT: Labor groups to hold picket in support of Korean
workers
WHEN: Tomorrow, January 10, 10:30 am
WHERE: South Korean Embassy, McKinley
Town Center ,
Fort Bonifacio
DETAILS: The Partido ng Manggagawa, Philippine
Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) and Alliance of Progressive Labor will
hold the picket as a solidarity action for Korean workers. The picket is in
coordination with a general strike in South Korea
The groups
will also present a letter to the South Korean ambassador expressing their
concern at the repression of Korean workers. Even as railway workers ended a month-long strike last
December 31, the South Korean has continued to pursue criminal charges against union
leaders and threatened dismissals against hundreds of members. Also the police raided
the headquarters of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions at the height of
the strike against rail privatization. “The peril to labor rights and
conditions in one country is a disadvantage to the state of workers everywhere
in this globalized world,” the groups assert.
In
the picket, the groups will demand (1) withdrawal of criminal charges against
KRWU leaders; (2) withdrawal of damage suit against KRWU; (3) stop to the
dismissals and disciplinary actions against KRWU members; (4) end to labor
repression in the Republic
of Korea
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