Endless HHIC situation

Posted on : 2011-07-09 14:12 KST Modified on : 2019-10-19 20:29 KST

In the above photo, around 700 employees of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) and its contract companies wear yellow hardhats during a rally to denounce the involvement of outside forces in the HHIC situation in front of the main gate to the HHIC’s Yeongdo shipyard in the Yeongdo District of Busan, June 6. Across the street, about 400 unionists from the Korean Metal Workers’ Union move to participate in a rally for calling on the HHIC to withdraw massive layoffs.

In the photo below, police buses surround the Yeongdo shipyard.

Civic activists managing the second “Hope Bus for a World Without Layoffs and Temporary Workers” said a number of citizens and laborers on the buses will leave for the Yeongdo shipyard to support Kim Jin-suk, a member of the Direction Committee for the Busan branch of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), who has staged her aerial protest in the 35-meter-high No. 85 crane for more than six months. They plan to hold a music concert at the Busan Station Plaza with music performances and poetry readings at 8 p.m. and to have a midnight culture festival on the street outside the shipyard.

In response, the police said they plan to deploy 7,000 officers of 93 companies to the site of the demonstration.

(Photo by Newsis News, Story by Kim Kwang-soo)

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