Friday, November 08, 2002
80,000 SOUTH KOREAN WORKERS GO ON STRIKE: Why? Poor and unsafe working conditions? Demands for the right to strike and engage in collective bargaining? NO!
More than 80,000 factory workers went on strike today to protest proposed legislation to cut the workweek from five and a half to five days, but they promised to go back to their jobs after the government said it would postpone action on the bill. . . Workers would rather go on working five and a half days a week than give up a number of the paid holidays to which they were long accustomed, a union official said.Wow!
