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“Strikes are irrelevant to infections, meetings must follow quarantine rules”
Distribution of opinions on effectiveness from within
KCTU members are holding banners at a rally against the amendment to the Trade Union Law held in front of the Federation of Korean Employers (Gyeonggi Chong) in Mapo-gu, Seoul, on the afternoon of the 18th.
As the government raises the stage of social distancing in the Seoul metropolitan area and the Honam area to stage 2 and stage 1.5, respectively, beginning on the 24th, the National Federation of Democratic Trade Unions (Democratic Unions) announced again that it would do comply with a general strike scheduled for the 25th. There is a growing accusation that it will strictly follow quarantine regulations, or that an unreasonable fight is only being repeated in the context of the third pandemic of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
The KCTU announced on the 22nd that “I will make a decided general strike on the 25th, regardless of the adjustment of the social distancing stage.” He added that the strike itself does not affect the infection so much as letting go of its hand, and that the assembly will be held respecting the quarantine rules. A KCTU official explained: “It is a national strike, but the assembly is distributed by region, so there is not a large number of people gathered.” “The total fight in front of the National Assembly will also take place according to the standard of the second stage meeting of 100 or less.”
As the target of this strike, the KCTU declared ‘to stop the reform of labor law and win the three laws of Jeon Tae-il’. It is to prevent the National Assembly from passing the amendment to the trade union law, which the government has prepared to ratify the fundamental conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO), and to urge legislation to protect workers in the blind spot of labor law that are most vulnerable to the corona infectious disease crisis19.
At the labor-management debate on the revision of the union law that took place at the Seoul Royal Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul on 21 last month, a union official of drivers from a national KCTU agency holds a picket line. behind the Minister of Employment and Labor Lee Jae-gap opposing the revision of the union law. Yunhap news
The KCTU is particularly eager to stop the amendment to the trade union law. The revised bill was prepared with the objective of strengthening the right to organize by guaranteeing the union activities of those laid off and expanding the union rights of public servants and teachers. However, the labor community noted that, among the amendments, △ extension of the validity period of collective agreements from the current two years to three years △ prohibition of protest actions in the main facilities of commercial sites as provisions on toxins. A KCTU official said: “The amendment is removing basic labor rights, such as restricting peaceful industrial activities and solidarity activities. This will worsen working conditions in non-union workplaces, as well as where there are unions.”
The KCTU general strike is a predicted sea. The KCTU has been led by a hard-line focused emergency countermeasures committee after the leadership resigned in July due to a misappropriation of the Triple Management Agreement to overcome the Corona 19 crisis. Immediately after his inauguration, the no Capitán revealed that he “will commit to a hard-line fight to prohibit the dismissal”, but was launched when the National Assembly seriously deliberated on the revision of the labor law. There is also the possibility that the hardliners are trying to establish their position before the leadership elections that begin on the 28th.
Opinions are divided within the KCTU on the effectiveness of this general strike. In a situation where the Corona 19 situation worsens, there is concern that this general strike will only draw criticism from the public. There is also an expectation that there will be fewer unions participating in the strike after last year, when the strike participation rate was only 1%. An official of a union under the KCTU said: “There are many opinions among the young members who ‘try a different method’, but it is a structure that is not well communicated,” he said.
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