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	Korean Confederation of Trade Unions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) was officially established on November 11, 1995.
		It is one of the two major trade unions along with Federation of Korean Trade Unions.
		The KCTU is launched a general strike on November 15th, 2006, hoping to mobilize 800 000 Korean workers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_Confederation_of_Trade_Unions (197 words)

	Finally, the government gives in to recognise the KCTU
		The establishment of the KCTU on November 11, 1995, after 8 years since the massive explosion of workers’ struggle in 1987 and the birth of democratic trade union movement in November 1970 was itself a historic landmark in the emergence of a new force in the Korean society.
		The refusal to recognise the KCTU by the government—the present and all the previous governments—was an insistent attempt to refuse to acknowledge the emergence and also to suppress the growth of the new force represented by the KCTU.
		The legal recognition of the KCTU is also a victory for international trade union movement and the vindication of the standard setting and supervisory vigilance of the International Labour Organisation, and common international aspiration for basic labour and trade union rights enshrined in the ILO Conventions.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55a/260.html (1419 words)

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		The KCTU and the KGEU raised the issue on government employees’ trade union rights in the tripartite representatives meetings, and an agreement was made in July between the government and the unions to table the agenda on government employees’ union rights during forthcoming negotiations.
		This is notably true with regard to the improvement of trade union rights in July 1999 and the legalisation of the KCTU later in the same year as well as the legalisation of educational unions and the partial reform of the law on third party intervention.
		Furthermore, the effort to force a trade union to submit a notice of establishment, or to force “voluntary withdrawal of membership” or “transformation into a legal trade union” by a resolution of a general assembly or delegates conference or to force the resignation of the elected leaders are all unfair labour practices.
	www.ohchr.org /english/bodies/hrc/docs88/HRC_KCTU_Report_Final.doc (11660 words)

	Statement by Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
		The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions is moved to express its serious concern over the choices being made and steps being taken by the U.S. Bush Administration.
		The U.S. government is abusing the grief and anger of the victims, their families, and ordinary Americans, including vast members of the American trade union movement, who are hard at work to salvage humanity from the ruins of destruction, to whip up a war frenzy.
		The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions joins in the mourning for the dead, grief of all the victims and their families, and in lending support and strength to those labouring in the relief work.
	www.kclabor.org /statement_by_kctu.htm (1460 words)

	Fred Gaboury - South Korean unions force government to backdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In what the Financial Times of London called a "significant climbdown," the South Korean government agreed on Jan. 21 to bow to union demands and revise a package of repressive legislation passed at a recent meeting of parliament.
		Although the government action falls far short of meeting the original demand of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions for nullification of the laws, the Financial Times said the retreat "is expected to cause a reshuffle of cabinet and ruling party officials."
		Union organizations from around the world were quick to hail the action of their Korean colleagues.
	www.pww.org /archives97/97-01-25-1.html (379 words)

	Human Rights Internet - The Human Rights Databank
		Introduction: Korean Confederation of Trade Unions traces its roots to the nascent workers' struggles ignited by the self-immolation of a garment worker Chun Tae-il on November 13, 1970.
		As the successor to a century of unflinching struggle of Korean workers, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions is committed to advancing workers' empowerment by combining struggles for economic, social, and political reform.
		KCTU's political empowerment programme is firmly embedded in the aspirations for democracy, national sovereignty, and peaceful reunification shared by all progressive sectors of society which have developed in the struggle against dictatorial domination.
	www.hri.ca /organizations/viewOrg.asp?ID=8033 (822 words)

	The Korea Times : Contingent Workers Look to Organize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Union members from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) hold a rally calling for the government to withdraw from its talks with the United States about a free trade agreement and improve the labor rights for non-regular workers, in Taehangno, Seoul, Dec. 25./ Korea Times
		The new trend among labor unions is to establish industry-wide unions, scrapping their traditional union-by-union approach to increase their size and negotiating power.
		The individualized approach by unions did little to stop that,’’ said Lee Sang-hak, an official at the policy research bureau of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), the smaller of Korea’s two flagship labor union umbrella organizations, the other being the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU).
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/nation/200612/kt2006123118043411990.htm (796 words)

	The capitulation of the South Korean unions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Over the past decade the emergence of a mass, semi-legal, militant trade union movement in South Korea has been cited by various radical and "left" tendencies around the world as evidence that trade unionism is a viable perspective in today’s global economy.
		The KCTU led large strikes for higher wages and trade union rights in the 1980s and early 1990s, often in violent confrontations with the military and US-backed regimes of Generals Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo.
		The opportunist "left" in every country maintains that the trade unions are essentially healthy workers’ organisations and that their basic problem is the existence of treacherous individual union leaders.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/feb1998/koreatu.shtml (923 words)

	peacefile » Blog Archive » Korean Airline Unions Refuse to Transport Troops to Iraq
		The labor unions of the nation’s two airliners, Korean Air and Asiana Airlines, declared Thursday that they refuse to transport anything related to the troop dispatch to Iraq, including Korean soldiers to be stationed in Iraq along with armor and related equipment.
		The KCTU demands cancellation of the plans to dispatch troops to Iraq, as one of its main demands for the first half of this year, in order to avoid sacrifice of further lives.
		We demand that the Korean government not play puppet to the foreign policies of the US and that it take a firm stance again it, and that it protect the rights and the lives of its citizens.
	peacefile.org /wordpress/?p=66 (629 words)

	Korean unions call general strike \| Workers' Liberty
		The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions called a general strike on 28 February against Korean government moves to impose greater "flexibility" on Korean workers.
		On behalf of the KCTU, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, with its 800,000 grass-root members, I'm appreciating to deliver to all of you, the fact that the KCTU has called on a general strike from February 28th protesting the passage of a irregular workers legislation by the Parliament environment and labour committee.
		During the strike, the KCTU made a massive protest rally at about 10 major cities declaring it would be continued with its strike unless the Parliament would give up the final passage of the legislation at the plenary session of the Parliament on March 2nd.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/5684 (538 words)

	Korean Teachers & Education Workers' Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union (KTU; abbreviated to Jeon-gyojo) is a labor union of teachers in South Korea.
		KTU finally received official recognition in 1999, and many of the dismissed teachers were allowed to return to their former positions.
		A major contributor to the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the KTU is sometimes accused by opponents of promoting pro-unification and "anti-US" activities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korea_Teachers_and_Workers_Union (229 words)

	Korean workers show how to handle a conservative congress
		The militant Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), an unrecognized federation founded in 1995, called for a general strike that day.
		It is the newer more militant KCTU that has brought the majority of workers into the streets and crippled the country's export-oriented corporations.
		With Korea experiencing a $23 billion deficit in trade and foreign investment for 1996, strikes in these sectors have put the government on the spot.
	www.afn.org /~iguana/archives/1997_03/19970311.html (711 words)

	Bacon: Korean Workers Shut Down the Chaebols
		KCTU President Kwon Young-kil was himself arrested last year for union activity, and many other leaders are presently imprisoned for the crime of "disrupting business." The KCTU is an illegal union, with no right to exist under Korean labor law.
		Korean workers paid for their country’s enormous industrial growth with a low standard of living, while making the chaebols some of the world’s largest and wealthiest corporations.
		In a late-night, seven-minute session of the Korean Congress, to which only government-party legislators were invited, a new law was passed, legalizing the hiring of replacement workers, or scabs, during strikes.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/mar97bacon.htm (1087 words)

	CNN - S. Korean union group threatens general strike - Feb. 10, 1998
		SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, a key union umbrella group representing 550,000 workers, on Tuesday threatened a general strike to force the renegotiation of last week's labor agreement allowing employers to fire people with prior notice.
		The labor agreement was a crucial element of the country's reforms as mandated under the record $58 billion economic bailout package arranged by the International Monetary Fund to rescue the country from its worst financial crisis in decades.
		South Korean workers, who for the first time in recent memory face the prospect of unemployment, have little appetite for a confrontation that could make things worse, analysts said.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9802/10/s.korea.labor/index.html (572 words)

	Korea Is One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Labor unions’ struggle against government and management is expected to move into high gear this week over pending labor issues such as the non-regular workers’ bill and the status of civil servants’ union.
		Unionists from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) Thursday began a general strike, calling on the government and the ruling Uri Party to withdraw their plan to unilaterally pass a non-regular workers bill this month.
		The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU) held the joint protest on Taehangno at 2 p.m.
	www.korea-is-one.org /mot.php3?id_mot=153 (3182 words)

	South Korea unions abandon strike
		The February 9 agreement to scrap South Korea's "life-long employment" policy was reached between KCTU leaders, leaders of a second, state-sanctioned union federation, officials of the country's major business conglomerates and representatives of Kim Dae Jung, the longtime bourgeois opposition leader who had heavy union backing in the election and takes office February 25.
		A specially convened meeting of KCTU union delegates rejected the tripartite deal, forced the resignation of the entire leadership, and installed an emergency executive committee headed by Dan Byung-Ho, president of the Korean Democratic Federation of Metal Trade Unions.
		The value of the South Korean won fell sharply on money markets, the stock market plunged, and the union leaders bowed to the argument that they must do what was in the interests of the "national economy"—in other words, in the interests of South Korean capitalism.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/feb1998/korfin.shtml (578 words)

	Korean Unions Reluctantly Agree to Layoffs
		Leaders of the Federation of Korean Trade Unions and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, accustomed to lifetime employment, reluctantly abandoned their no-layoff stance in return for several concessions, including unemployment insurance, legalization of a national teachers union, and the right of unions to participate in politics.
		Scores of Korean companies are expected to go bankrupt in the coming months while others struggle to survive in the face of sharply falling domestic sales, mounting debts and nowhere to go for the easy credit on which they relied before the country's debt crisis.
		Ahn Pong Sul, international director of the Federation of Korean Trade Unions, predicted the nation's unemployment figure of 660,000 would at least double by the end of the year.
	www.iht.com /articles/1998/02/07/won.t_2.php (439 words)

	CNN - South Korean president signs new labor law - Mar. 12, 1997
		Militant unions have threatened to organize new strikes against the new law, which delays clauses that threaten workers' job security.
		The new law also would legalize the outlawed Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the group responsible for organizing the earlier protests.
		Korean Confederation of Trade Unions News (in English)
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9703/12/korea (343 words)

	LaborNet: Online Communications for a Democratic Labor Movement
		SIGTUR is built upon the foundation of democratic trade unionism, committed to defending and promoting: * worker and citizen rights; * economic equality, social equality, gender equality; * political freedom and participatory democracy; * a green agenda against environmental degradation.
		SIGTUR is a non-aligned, independent, action and campaign orientated network, grounded in democratic trade unions in the south that has secured a high degree of support from all active trade union internationals.
		SIGTUR is deeply committed to the struggle for democratic trade union rights, which means challenging the logic of neoliberal global change, which has been so damaging to collective rights and the maintenance of decent conditions.
	www.labornet.org /news/0803/sigtur.htm (556 words)

	Korean Confederation of Trade Unions - Republic of Korea - Equal Employment Opportunities
		Korean Confederation of Trade Unions - Republic of Korea
		The KCTU was established in 1995 comprising 19 industrial federations.
		Amongst its aims, the KCTU commits to gender equality, the abolition of discrimination and the improvement of the standard of working conditions.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/gems/eeo/law/korea/l_kctu.htm (80 words)

	11/15 Solidarity Action With Korean Workers Gen Strike : Indybay
		The KCTU will launch a General Strike on November 15 and in conjunction with this strike, the KCTU calls on the international community to coordinate a series of actions and events to support their struggle.
		The agreement was concluded in an "Emergency Session" of the tripartite representatives meeting, attended by the Ministry of Labor, the Korean Employer’s Federation, the Korean chamber of Commerce, the Korean Tripartite Commission and the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU).
		The KCTU urges the South Korean government and concerned parties that the question of enterprise-level union pluralism should not be an object of barter for a deal of anything.
	indybay.org /newsitems/2006/11/02/18325818.php (8467 words)

	Fighting the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement [S&L Magazine]
		The venerable South Korean leader warned the workers of the United States and South Korea that if the U.S.-Korean FTA is implemented, it will have the same negative impact in both countries as occurred when the U.S. imposed the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexico in 1994.
		Representatives from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions spoke at the June 4 rally in front of the White House and participated in all the militant protest activities that were conducted during the week.
		As U.S. and South Korean capitalist corporations continue their own drive for profit in South Korea, the United States and around the world, it is the people’s struggle alone that can stop them in their tracks.
	socialismandliberation.org /mag/index.php?aid=647 (948 words)

	South Korean Union Vows 'All-Out Battle' Over Jobs
		The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions on Wednesday pledged an "all-out battle against the government," pulling out of a commission set up a year ago to address growing unemployment.
		The response by the confederation, which has 600,000 members, mainly in heavy industries deemed essential to the recovery of the national economy, dramatized the difficulties of placating increasing numbers of workers dismissed from their jobs as companies downsize or go out of business.
		The withdrawal of the confederation from the commission was seen as a severe setback for Mr.
	www.iht.com /articles/1999/02/25/labor.2.t_0.php (590 words)

	Workers World June 21, 2001: General strike grips South Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Korean Airlines canceled all but one of its flights to the United States and all but one of its domestic flights when its 1,400 pilots walked out.
		The KCTU is calling for wage hikes, for the government to stop restructuring plans that have resulted in tens of thousands of layoffs, and for a 40-hour workweek.
		Though the South Korean capitalists were completely subservient to U.S. capitalism in all other matters--their military is under the de facto command of the Pentagon and allows the territory to be occupied by 40,000 U.S. troops--they were allowed to exploit their own working class, and even to trade and invest abroad.
	www.workers.org /ww/2001/korlabor0621.php (919 words)

	Korean Workers Rally Against Pursuing Free Trade Talks with U.S. \| Asian American News \| GoldSea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Korean Workers Rally Against Pursuing Free Trade Talks with U.S. ens of thousands of South Korean workers held rallies and labor strikes Wednesday to oppose a free trade agreement with the United States and demand better working conditions.
		Woo Moon-sook, a spokeswoman for the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, said some 80,000 workers participated in major cities across the country, including about 20,000 near the city hall in central Seoul.
		Thousands of unionized South Korean teachers held a separate rally near the city hall in Seoul in protest of a government plan to introduce a new evaluation system for teachers.
	goldsea.com /Asiagate/611/23trade.html (448 words)

	ICFTU ONLINE Korean strike suspended (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Representatives of the two national Korean trade union centres, the KCTU and the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU), both affiliated to the ICFTU, have been in a marathon negotiating session with the government and employers since Wednesday evening.
		According to the KCTU, these negotiations have resulted in agreement on eight demands, while discussions are continuing on two contentious issues, namely the mass dismissals undertaken by Hyundai Motors and the government’s action in its restructuring of the banking and public sector.
		Dozens of trade union officials have taken refuge in the cathedral to avoid arrest.
	www.icftu.org /www/english/pr/1998/eprol163-980723-ld.html (298 words)

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