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DESCRIPTION:4/12 SF Protest-Free The Jailed Korean Trade Unionists NOW! Democratic 
 Rights For All Working People In Korea Stop Privatization, Deregulation and 
 Union Busting Free All Political Prisoners of Former Corrupt President Park 
 Geun-hye \nFree The Jailed Korean Trade Unionists NOW!\nDemocratic Rights 
 For All Working People In Korea\nStop Privatization, Deregulation and Union 
 Busting\nFree All Political Prisoners of Former Corrupt President Park 
 Geun-hye \nRally and Speak Out\nFriday May 12, 2017 12:00 Noon\nKorean 
 Consulate\n3500 Clay St./Laurel\nSan Francisco\nThe former President Park 
 Geun-hye and her government have been impeached for corruption and 
 violating the democratic, human and labor rights of the Korean people. She 
 and her cronies were paid off by union busting corporations like Samsung, 
 Hanjin and others to allow company unions, to deregulate health and safety 
 and to harass and intimidate democratic trade unionists. She also used mass 
 repression to stop the Korean Rail Strike against privatization and has put 
 many union leaders and rank and file trade unionists in jail.\nKorean 
 Confederation of Trade Unions KCTU president Han Sang-gyun of the was 
 sentenced by the the her corrupt judges to five years in July 2016 for 
 supporting political organizing against the government. In December Park 
 Won-h, president of the KPTU-Truck Sol of the Korean public Service 
 Division. KCTU organising secretary Bae Tae-sun received an 18-month 
 sentence with a 100,000 won fine.\nRailway trade unionists like Lee Jin 
 Young have also been jailed to silence and intimidate workers.\nTime To 
 Stand Up For Democratic Labor Rights!\nWhile President Park Geun-hye and 
 others in her government are in jail, the illegal jailing of workers and 
 opponents of her government are still in jail as well. It is time to free 
 all political prisoners and stop the continuing repression.\nInitiated 
 by\nUnited Public Workers For Action www.upwa.info\nwww.upwa.info\nFor more 
 information\ninfo@upwa.info\n(415)282-1908\n\n\nJailed Korean Trade 
 Unionists\n1. Kim Gyeongdo  : The Metal Union Korea GM car brench\n2. Han 
 Sanggyun ; KCTU The President\n3. Choi Yeongcheol : Construction Union \n4: 
 Kim Gihong : Construction Union\n5. Park Junseon : KCTU The director of 
 organization\n6. Lee Jaesik : The Cargo union\n7. Nam Jeongsu : KCTU The 
 director of education and publicity\n8. Choi Jaegeun : The Metal Union 
 Korea GM car branch\n9. Lee Geumju : The Metal Union Ssangyoung car 
 branch\n10. Joe Seongdeok : KPTU The vice president (Public & 
 Transport)\n11. Bae Taeseon : KCTU The Director of Organization\n12. Jeong 
 Yeonghyeon : Construction Union\n13.  Lee Hyeondae : KCTU The director of 
 organization\n14.  Lee Jin Young, 
 KRWU\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=525SAeBiFYk\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAEvgdFKkLc\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9sS5vYoRiw\nAdditional 
 information\nhttps://www.facebook.com/kctueng\nhttp://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/729162.html\nhttp://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/723488.html\nhttp://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/722989.html\nhttp://sflaborcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/04-13-15ResReWMDTPPKoreanMothers.pdf\nhttp://sflaborcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/01-12-15ResSptKoreanJournalists.pdf\nhttp://sflaborcouncil.org/sites/labor/uploads/01-24-11ResOpposingKORUS.pdf\n\n\nSouth 
 Korea: Release Jailed Trade Unionists, Respect Workers’ 
 Rights\nhttp://www.tradeunionfreedom.co.uk/south-korea-release-jailed-trade-unionists-respect-workers-rights/\nPosted 
 on October 11, 2016 by admin\nThe assault on workers’ rights in South 
 Korea is intensifying, with more than 20 trade union leaders and members 
 now imprisoned including seven KCTU leaders and officials namely KCTU 
 President Han Sang-gyun, KPTU vice president Cho, Sung-deok and KPCWU 
 president Lee, Jong-hwa. President Park Guen-hye’s government has been 
 throwing people into prison simply for standing up for workers’ 
 rights.\n\nCurrently, the strike of public sector workers against the 
 regressive labour reform and performance based pay system was declared 
 ‘illegal’ and nine leaders of Korean Railway Workers Union are accused 
 for the notorious ‘obstruction of business’.\n\n In order to end the 
 strike, the government is seeking ’emergency arbitration’, a practice 
 denounced by the ILO as infringement of freedom of association. The 
 self-employed truck drivers also face criminal and civil charges for a 
 strike they planned.\n\nWhile the focus of international protest has been 
 mostly on the government itself, the role of Korean business, and 
 especially the shadowy Chaebol conglomerates which dominate the national 
 economy, is coming under the spotlight.\n\n A new ITUC/IndustriALL report 
 on Samsung details the lengths to which some Korean employers will go to 
 bust unions and repress workers’ rights inside Korea and in international 
 supply chains.\nPresident Park will have to step down at the end of her 
 term in December 2017, and it is crucial to keep up the pressure to break 
 the stranglehold that a few corporations have over the state.\n\n A new 
 President should mean a new start for Korea, one where fundamental rights, 
 economic security and safe work for ordinary people are the order of the 
 day. In the coming weeks and months, every bit of pressure on the current 
 regime of President Park will make it that much harder for corporate greed 
 to maintain its grip on one of the world’s most significant 
 economies.\n\nThe International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) and 
 Public Services International (PSI) are calling for unions to picket 
 outside South Korean embassies on 12 October to urgently protest against 
 government repression of trade unions in South Korea.\n\n\n\nThey are in 
 jail because of supporting  'the people rising up rally at 13th Nov' last 
 year.\nKorean Strikes Hamper Surface Transport at Korean Ports "The rail 
 strike, now entering its third week, has taken out about half of the 
 nation's freight train 
 capacity."\nhttp://www.maritime-executive.com/…/strikes-hamper-surface-…\n\nTruckers' 
 labor action at Busan (courtesy KPTU) \nBy MarEx 2016-10-12 17:43:44 
 \nTruckers and rail workers in South Korea have launched simultaneous 
 strikes, raising difficulties for ports already challenged by container 
 overcrowding from the Hanjin Shipping crisis. \nThe Cargo Truckers 
 Solidarity (CTS, or TruckSol) union launched a general strike Monday 
 against a government proposal to deregulate the number of small trucks used 
 for home deliveries, and are demanding the introduction of “standard 
 rates” for trucking services. Korea Bizwire reports that the strike has 
 removed a third of the container trucking capacity available at Busan, 
 South Korea's largest port. \nThe two Hanjin terminals at Busan are nearing 
 maximum capacity, Bizwire says, at about 80 percent – the point where 
 excess numbers begin to impede operations. Other terminals may face the 
 same difficulties soon, especially since the strike has taken out part of 
 Busan's inter-terminal transfer service for transshipments.\nWhile Busan 
 has been affected, Korea Herald reported that the trucker strike was not 
 having a widespread impact across the nation due to a low participation 
 rate. In addition, the deployment of police, military transport vehicles 
 and non-union trucks has blunted the labor action’s impact.\n“The 
 government will sternly deal with this strike in accordance with the law 
 and its principle,” said Transport Minister Kang Ho-in in a statement 
 Monday.\nThe international Transport Worker’s Union accused the Korean 
 government of a heavy-handed response to the strike. “It is unacceptable 
 that the South Korean government is responding to the legitimate demands of 
 workers with intimidation, violence and arrests,” said Tony Sheldon, the 
 International Transport Workers’ Federation’s road transport chair. The 
 union said that the arrests and injuries occurred after thousands of police 
 surrounded a union rally in front of the Busan New Port; further, it said 
 that the government has threatened strikers with reprisals, including 
 license suspensions and criminal charges.\nStrikers and police at 
 Busan\nThe rail strike, now entering its third week, has taken out about 
 half of the nation's freight train capacity. The Korea Herald estimated 
 that over 7,000 members of the rail union are participating, about 40 
 percent, including workers on Seoul’s subway system.\nKorea Railroad 
 Corporation is reported to be using emergency staff to operate container 
 freight services in an attempt to alleviate the port congestion.\nThe labor 
 dispute comes amidst other bad news for Korean port activity. South Korea's 
 export volume shrank at six percent year on year in September, due mainly 
 to another ongoing strike at automaker Hyundai Motor and a 
 multi-billion-dollar recall on Samsung's new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone – 
 in addition to the logistics problems stemming from the collapse of 
 Hanjin.\nKorean Gov Park Prosecutors seek two-year prison sentence for 
 organizer of Sewol ferry march of silence over government 
 cover-up\nhttp://english.hani.co.kr/…/english_…/e_national/770031.html\nNov.13,2016 
 11:59 KSTModified on : Nov.13,2016 11:59 
 KST\n<145647018801_20160227.JPG>\n25-year-old Yong Hye-in speaks at a 
 citizens’ filibuster in front of the National Assembly in Seoul’s 
 Yeouido neighborhood on Feb. 25, opposing anti-terror legislation. (by Kim 
 Myoung-jin, staff photographer)\nOrganizer says her life was changed by the 
 Sewol sinking, and she hopes her case will show the country “that it’s 
 not a crime to fight injustice”\nOn Nov. 2 South Korean prosecutors asked 
 a court to give a two-year prison sentence to Yong Hye-in, who organized a 
 much-discussed march of silence called “Stay Where You Are” after the 
 sinking of the Sewol ferry. \nYong is charged with having allowed protests 
 that she had organized to exceed the scope approved by the authorities 
 (obstruction of traffic) and with having organized a march without first 
 receiving permission from the authorities (violating the Assembly and 
 Demonstration Act). Yong was behind the march of silence for the Sewol, 
 protest demonstrations during a hunger strike by the Sewol victims’ 
 families and several other commemorative demonstrations in 2014. \nYong 
 shared the news about the sentence the prosecutors are seeking on her 
 Facebook page on Nov. 2 along with the final testimony she made at Seoul 
 Central District Court. “During the 1,000 days that have passed since the 
 Sewol Ferry sank in the waters off the coast of Jindo [in South Jeolla 
 Province], many things have happened, and my life has changed a great 
 deal,” Yong said at the beginning of her testimony. Then she asked the 
 judge, the prosecutors and the lawyers in the courtroom whether they 
 remembered the moment that they learned about the Sewol accident on Apr. 
 16, 2014. \n<141963651474_20141228.JPG>\nYong Hye-in participates in a 
 silent demonstration that she initiated with other young people after the 
 Sewol tragedy in April. The signs read, “Stay where you are”.\nOn the 
 day of the Sewol tragedy, Yong got to school early and was talking with 
 some of her friends. One friend sent her news about the Sewol on her mobile 
 phone. Yong had lived in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province and she had wanted to get 
 into Danwon High School (which many of the students who died in the sinking 
 attended). While she was absorbed in thought about Danwon High School on 
 her way to class, she heard to her relief that all the passengers had been 
 rescued. But to Yong’s dismay, that good news turned out to be completely 
 incorrect. \n“I was shocked to learn about the false report, but I 
 stopped worrying when I heard that a massive rescue effort was underway, 
 involving hundreds of divers, hundreds of boats, several helicopters and 
 hundreds of flares. It’s embarrassing to admit it, but even then I 
 assumed that at least a few of the passengers would be rescued and that 
 there would be a moving scene of a tearful reunion with their families in 
 front of media cameras,” Yong said. \n“The entire country was plunged 
 into sorrow” by the Sewol tragedy, said Yong, as she continued her 
 testimony. “The media was talking about the Werther Effect and expressing 
 concern about how the tragedy might affect the public. This was also when 
 some people started talking about the blow to consumer sentiment,” Yong 
 said. \n“After the tragedy, there were many people who said they were 
 sorry. I thought that this was because they felt responsibility as members 
 of society for having created a society in which 304 people’s lives could 
 be taken from them like that, a society in which people have to suddenly 
 learn that their family members have died,” Yong said. \nIt was around 
 this time, Yong explained, that she planned the “Stay Where You Are” 
 march of silence out of a desire to create an opportunity to talk to and 
 comfort those who were grieving. Several dozen people came together at 
 Yong’s suggestion and walked together through central Seoul, carrying 
 chrysanthemums tied with yellow ribbons and small pickets that read, 
 “Stay Where You Are.” \nDuring the testimony, Yong also expressed her 
 feelings about the trial, which had lasted for two years: “I’ve had a 
 hard time during the two years of this trial. I was arrested for the first 
 time in my life after the Sewol sinking; I spent two nights in a police 
 station; I was shuttled around by the police and the prosecutors; and I saw 
 my first search warrant.” At the same time, Yong was confident that if 
 someone asked her if she regretted it all, she would say she didn’t. “I 
 want to live as a member of society, as the kind of person who fulfills 
 their responsibilities as a human being,” she said. \n“Many South 
 Koreans are infuriated about the recent scandal involving Park Geun-hye and 
 [her confidante and unofficial advisor] Choi Sun-sil. I think they’ve 
 learned over the past two years that resisting injustice and corruption in 
 society is never a crime. I hope that my trial will set a good precedent 
 that it’s not a crime to fight injustice,” Yong told the Hankyoreh in a 
 telephone interview on Nov. 3. Yong’s verdict will be read on Dec. 7.\nBy 
 Park Soo-jin, staff reporter\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Free The Jailed Korean Trade Unionists NOW! Democratic Rights For All Workers
LOCATION:Korean Consulate\n3500 Clay St./Laurel\nSan Francisco
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