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When the police notified the assembly restrictions for fear of the spread of the coronavirus infection, members of the Civil Union attacked the police officers. The police restricted the assembly as there were six times as many trade unionists as originally reported by the Civil Federation. It is known that the life of a police officer was injured as the unionists used violence in the process.
The Jeonbuk Gunsan Police Department announced on the 9th that it plans to request an arrest warrant for two people, including A, a national plant construction union member of the KCTU, accused of obstructing the conduct of public affairs. They are charged with assaulting a police officer on the 8th at a power plant construction site in Biungdo-dong, Gunsan-si. The police arrested Mr. A at the scene.
The Confederation of Trade Unions reported that the number of members of the assembly was 99, but in fact, an estimated 650 police officers gathered. The number of police officers mobilized that day reached 800. The police notified the civil union to dissolve, saying: “There is great concern about the spread of infectious diseases.” Later, it was investigated that Mr. A and others used violence while confronting the police.
The police said it was an unavoidable decision because more members of the assembly gathered than the original report, but the union side confronted them saying: “We are intercepting the legitimate assembly with public power.”
Since 18 last month, members of the Civil Union have been holding a demonstration saying: “The construction company has refused to hire members of the Civil Union and is hiring services to block access to the site.” A dialogue is requested with the construction company and three union members are working at high altitude on the 20 meter high structure. The construction company made a proposal to “contract at another construction site”, but it is known that members of the Civil Union are not affected.
The construction company said: “While there are 250 construction workers, the members of the Federation of Trade Unions have met and filed numerous complaints with related organizations, interfering with the construction process.” “To hire members of the Federation of Trade Unions, the workers who are already working must be fired.” Said. “On the 17th of last month, three union members illegally damaged the fence around 10 at night and climbed to the third floor of the construction site and have been working at high altitude for more than 20 days.” I did it.”
The Jeonbuk branch of the National Union of Plant Construction Workers, the Federation of Civil Unions, has raised the scale of the assembly in earnest this week. On the 7th, the Jeonbuk branch sent a text message to members of each branch in the province, titled “The Total Struggle for Gunsan Power Plants from September 8-11”.
In the text message, ‘A call is issued through the Emergency Management Committee in accordance with the operating rules of the Jeonbuk Branch. It is written that all the former members of the Jeonbuk branch should stop working in the workplace without exception and gather them all together in the all-out fight starting tomorrow.
Furthermore, he stated, “ At the Fight Headquarters meeting, we will focus on the struggles of the Jeonbuk branch, and tomorrow we will immediately gather around 300 expanded executives from other branches. ” There is also a phrase that says you must bear all the disadvantages caused by your absence. ‘
As union members gathered on a large scale, complaints struck Gunsan City and the police, asking, ‘Why do we let so many people come together because the spread of the coronavirus is so serious?’ Local residents even filed a petition in the Blue House National Petitions Bulletin, asking to stop a large-scale assembly.
The national petition entitled ‘Economically urgent Gunsan is creating an emergency situation again with corona’ has been agreed by 1,156 people as of 3:00 p.m. on the 9th. Cheong Won-in said: “Since the decision to close the plant Gunsan of GM Korea are experiencing financial difficulties, and the recent spread of the corona community infection puts freelancers on the brink of bankruptcy. It could cause an infection, ”he wrote.
The police plan not to allow large-scale assembly in the future. A police officer said: “The constitution recognizes freedom of assembly, but it is a policy that does not allow large-scale assemblies in accordance with the relevant law because it is a crown state of emergency.” The City of Gunsan also delivered an official letter requesting the KCTU to stop the assembly.
