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Over 50,000 protest Lee labor policies

» Over 50,000 protest Lee labor policies.

Lee So-seon, from the left, mother of martyred labor activist Chun Tae-il and a heroic activist of her own accord, sits in the front row of a protest against President Lee Myung-bak administration labor policies alongside Roh Hoe-chan, chairperson of the New Progressive Party, and Kang Ki-kap, chairperson of the Democratic Labor Party, Nov. 8.

Behind them sit over 50 thousand laborers participating in the national laborers’ convention hosted by the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) at Yeouido Plaza.

The KCTU had previously announced plans to conduct a full-pledged General Strike on Nov. 22, and has now announced a blockade against the administration’s plan to cut union representative’s wages and damaging revisions to the Irregular Worker Law.

Photo by Park Jong-sik/The Hankyoreh

Posted on : Nov.9,2009 12:08 KST

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