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▲ On the afternoon of the 22nd, the monks belonging to the Social and Labor Committee of the Jogye Order celebrated Oche Fighting, demanding the reinstatement of leader Kim Jin-sook. | |
Ⓒ Kim Jong-hoon |
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▲ On the afternoon of the 22nd, the monks belonging to the Social and Labor Committee of the Jogye Order celebrated Oche Fighting, demanding the reinstatement of leader Kim Jin-sook. | |
Ⓒ Kim Jong-hoon |
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Jin-sook Kim, the first female welder in a Korean shipyard to join the Korea Shipbuilding Corporation (now Hanjin Heavy Industries) in 1981. In February 1986, when she was 26 years old, she distributed a pamphlet exposing the use of union leaders , and was taken to the Supreme Court office and tortured. I was fired in July of that year.
However, Kim Jin-sook, a layoff, climbed onto the 35-meter high Yeongdo Shipyard 85 Crane 85 and fought at high altitude for 309 days against the restructuring of Hanjin Heavy Industries in 2011. Meanwhile, more than 10,000 Citizens across the country took the ‘Hope Bus’ to Yeongdo Shipyard and cheered for the fired Kim Jin-suk. With the sacrifice of Kim Jin-sook and the solidarity of citizens, the wind of restructuring stopped. When his colleagues stayed at the shipyard and played a role, Kim Jin-sook still couldn’t get out of his laid-off state.
In June 2020, Kim Jin-sook declared a ‘fight for reinstatement’ half a year before his retirement age. Kim Jin-sook said: “35 years of exile due to discomfort and impurity, and 35 years of trying to avoid a position of responsibility because you have to run if you call tomorrow,” he said. “Twenty-six unknown men covered in black cloth and scared. I want to leave the factory with the feet that were dragged into the office and I could not return,” he said in a letter.
On the afternoon of the 22nd, exactly nine days before Kim Jin-suk’s retirement, his colleagues and citizens chose to fast in front of the Blue House, clamoring for the reinstatement of Kim Jin-sook. The monks belonging to the Jogye Order Social Work Committee wore monks and carried bamboo balls on the cold winter ground to fight. ‘Kim Jin-sook’ and ‘Moon Jae-in’s government resolution’ took their hearts and came back.
▲ On the afternoon of the 22nd, the monks belonging to the Social and Labor Committee of the Jogye Order celebrated Oche Fighting, demanding the reinstatement of the leader Kim Jin-sook. | |
Ⓒ Kim Jong-hoon |
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▲ On the afternoon of the 22nd, at Blue House Fountain Plaza, Remember Hope Bus Executive Chairman, Father Jeong Hong-young, Father Seo Young-seop, Sung Mi-sun, Chairman of the Green Party cooperation committee, and Song Gyeong-dong, began a fasting campaign to urge the enactment of the Severe Accident Corporate Punishment Law and the reinstatement of Kim Jin-so’s Heavy Dismissal Industries. | |
Ⓒ Kwon Woo-seong |
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Pastor Seung-Ryeol Park, director of the Korean Christian Church Council’s Center for Human Rights, who attended the press conference for the hunger declaration, said: “The 35 years since Kim Jin-sook’s dismissal was a sacrifice of the government’s anti-labor policy, a fight for democracy and a fight for the protection of workers. ” We owe it to Kim Jin-suk. Now is the time to respond to their dedication. “
Kim Jin-sook, a layoff, contracted cancer in 2018. Amid post-operative sequelae, in December last year, he applied for reinstatement at Yeungnam University Medical Center and held a walking march to help the leader of the health union, Park Moon-jin, who had been on the street for more than 180 days. However, in November, Kim Jin-sook’s cancer reappeared. After the dismissal, Kim Jin-sook served as a leader in the Busan Regional Headquarters of the KCTU.
Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction CEO promised to ‘find a solution’ but no move
Of course, the movement to fight for the reinstatement of leader Kim Jin-sook after 35 years was expected to be difficult. However, Lee Byeong-mo, CEO of Hanjin Heavy Industries, who attended the state audit of the Ministry of Employment and Labor on October 26, asked Kim Jin-sook to restart his work. “In 1986, he was fired for a week without notice, and this part agrees with the opinion of older adults of low and middle income. When the reinstatement is decided, it can be interpreted as a denial for the payment of compensation “He said, but said,” I will try to find a creative solution that can be solved.
President Moon Seong-hyun, who was in the same place, took another step. He said, “It’s a problem the CEO shouldn’t say no to, a problem that can be solved if you think it can be done,” he said. “Let’s send in leader Kim Jin-suk as a beautiful worker for both parties. If the opposition parties do that, I will do my best.” Subsequently, President Moon took on the role of government representative to solve the problem of reinstating leader Kim Jin-sook.
On the same day, members of the National Assembly’s Environmental Work Committee announced a special resolution recommending the reinstatement of Kim. The resolution stated: “Hanjin Heavy Industries will ensure that the laid off worker Kim Jin-suk can return to work as soon as possible to restore his honor and work, and Hanjin Heavy Industries will accept deliberate and determined government recommendations in accordance with the law, and will sincerely discuss related matters along with the prompt reinstatement. It is stated that the Bank of Korea, Hanjin Heavy Industries’ main creditor, will take steps and cooperate to ensure that the reinstatement of Kim Jin-suk can be determined smoothly. ” .
However, leader Kim Jin-sook has not been reinstated. The ‘Kim Jin-sook Hope Bus Planning Group’, which decided to fast for Kim Jin-sook, said: “The president, the government and the Korean Development Bank, the legal manager of Hanjin Heavy Industries, have discussed wages for the period of unfair dismissal, which is one of the main liability issues for management following unfair dismissal. “We are not solving the problem by spreading the ‘front desk’ logic.” Korea Development Bank, Hanjin Heavy’s legal manager Industries, is a state bank 100% financed by the government.
The poet Song Gyeong-dong, who decided to fast together that day, said: “The president and the government are no different from the ’employees'” and said, “The legal opinion that it is not included in the ‘travel on business’ it was also given by five legal organizations, including Minbyun, on December 11. ” Emphasized.
▲ On the afternoon of the 22nd, at Blue House Fountain Plaza, Remember Hope Bus Executive Chairman, Father Jeong Hong-young, Father Seo Young-seop, Sung Mi-sun, Chairman of the Green Party cooperation committee, and Song Gyeong-dong, began a fasting campaign to urge the enactment of the Severe Accident Corporate Punishment Law and the reinstatement of Kim Jin-so’s Heavy Dismissal Industries. | |
Ⓒ Kwon Woo-seong |
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▲ On the afternoon of the 22nd, at Blue House Fountain Plaza, Remember Hope Bus CEO Father Seo Young-seop, Seong Mi-sun, Chairman of the Green Party Cooperation Committee, and Song Gyeong-dong started a campaign. fasting to urge the enactment of the corporate punishment law for severe disasters and the reinstatement of Hanjin Heavy Industries layoff, Kim Jin-suk. | |
Ⓒ Kwon Woo-seong |
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After the planning team’s press conference ended, five people, including Jeong Hong-young, senior vice president of the Busan Yangsan branch of the Metal Workers’ Union, and Song Kyung-dong, the poet Song Gyeong-dong, they started a fasting campaign. In Busan on the 6th, Ssangyong Cha branch manager Kim Deuk-jung and Seo Young-seop, a conventual Franciscan priest, also plan to join the fast.
The planning team announced that Park Moon-jin, who was fired from Yeungnam University Hospital, plans to take actions to urge Kim’s reinstatement, including a 1,000-time action in front of the Blue House and the second intensive action in the Hope Bus within this year. On the 19th, more than 400 vehicles voluntarily gathered from across the country in front of the Yeongdo Shipyard in Busan to execute the ‘Kim Jin-sook Hope Bus’. In September, after Kim’s fight for reinstatement began, the ‘Deliberation Committee on Recovery of Honor and Compensation for People Related to the Democratization Movement’ recommended that Hanjin Heavy Industries reinstate Kim for the second time after 2009. .
Currently, the Korean Development Bank, which is Hanjin Heavy Industries’ main creditor, is promoting the sale of Hanjin Heavy Industries. The main contract is said to be concluded between February and March next year after selecting a preferred negotiator during the year.