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DESCRIPTION:SF Solidarity Picket To Defend Korean Auto Workers, KTU Public\nTeachers & 
 KNUM Media Workers\nSolidarity Picket At Korean Consulate\nTo Defend 
 Ssangyong Auto Workers, KTU Public Teachers & KNUM Media Workers\n\nTuesday 
 July 28, 2009 4:00 PM\n3500 Clay (at Laurel) San Francisco\nKorean 
 Consulate San Francisco\n\nThe Korean labor movement is under a brutal 
 attack. Hundreds of police\nand hired thugs are attacking the Ssangyong 
 Motor sit-in strike by\nauto workers. These workers are demanding 
 negotiations over their\nlayoffs. The company has refused to negotiate and 
 instead with the\nsupport of the state the management illegally hired thugs 
 to beat up\nthe workers using baseball bats, steel pipes and martial 
 arts\nweapons(nunchaku). They came on July 21, 2009 to the plant 
 to\nseriously injure the striking workers which they did. They beat 
 up\nworkers who had no possibility of resisting arrest or 
 defending\nthemselves.\nThis vicious attack on the Ssangyong Motor workers 
 has been condemned\nby the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions KCTU and 
 they have called\nfor a General Strike and also for solidarity actions at 
 all Korean\nEmbassies and Consulates around the world. The use of 
 organized\nprivatized thugs to attack workers must be protested throughout 
 the\nworld.\nhttp://kctu.org/3668\nThese attacks are not only against the 
 striking auto workers but also\nagainst the Korean Teachers and Education 
 Workers Union (KTU, Jeon Gyo\nJo) for criticizing the Lee Myung-bak 
 administration. The government\nhas announced plans to discipline all 
 17,000 members of the union such\nas firing 88 individuals who led or 
 contributed to the statement. The\nunion has charged that the government is 
 seeking to exterminate the\npublic school 
 teachers.\nhttp://english.hani.co.kr/arti/engli...al/362679.html\nAt the 
 same time 13 thousand Korean National Union of Media Workers\nKNUM is 
 striking to protest a new law that would increase censorship\nunder the 
 Broadcasting Law and hurt workers rights under the Irregular\nWorker Law. 
 Both these anti-labor laws were pushed through without\ndebate by the 
 ruling Grand National Party to suffocate democracy and\nfreedom of the 
 press.\nhttp://english.hani.co.kr/arti/engli...al/366741.html\nhttp://english.hani.co.kr/arti/engli...al/367178.html\nPlease 
 join with us in the solidarity action to let the Korean\ngovernment that 
 this union busting and attack on Korean labor rights\nhas no support from 
 working people of the United States.\nPlease call the Consulate at 
 415-921-2251/Fax at 415-921-5964 To Make\nA Statement About Their 
 Actions\nInitiated by Transport Workers Solidarity 
 Committee\nhttp://www.transportworkers.org\nTo support and for more 
 information please contact us at 
 lvpsf(at)labornet.org\nhttp://kctu.org/3668\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/24/18612309.php
SUMMARY:Solidarity Picket To Defend Korean Auto Workers,KTU Public Teachers & Media Workers
LOCATION:Tuesday July 28, 2009 4:00 PM\n3500 Clay (at Laurel) San Francisco\nKorean 
 Consulate San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/24/18612309.php
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