KCTU Organized Protests Leaves School Kids in Seoul without Lunches

The KCTU fresh after getting their leader released from jail is now out trying to increase their ranks by protesting to get contract workers designated as regular employees at the schools:

Public sector contract employees who are members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), an umbrella organization representing around a million members nationwide, take part in a rally in Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on Wednesday afternoon. [NEWS1]

School workers across the country joined the first-ever general strike by public sector contract employees Wednesday, leaving thousands of children without lunches.

Around 2,500 contract workers at elementary, middle and high schools, which included bus drivers, cafeteria cooks and janitors, took part in rallies across Seoul on Wednesday calling for an increase in their basic incomes and an elevation of their status to workers on regular payrolls. 

The biggest was held in Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul, where around 40,000 contract workers gathered, according to the rally’s organizers. The Labor Ministry estimated the number of attendees at around 26,000.

The strike and rallies are set to continue until Friday.

This week’s rallies, organized by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) – an umbrella organization representing around one million members nationwide – are supposed to draw an estimated 100,000 contract workers in the public sector, with around half of them working at around 6,000 schools across Korea. 

Joong Ang Ilbo

You can read more at the link.

0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

3 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
setnaffa
setnaffa
5 years ago

A real government in Seoul would have fired all the striking workers and scooped up some of the unemployed, with the proviso that they cannot join that union.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
5 years ago

Selfish bastards. Know commie moon crashed the economy but they still want to take.

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
5 years ago

Commie part timer parasites trying to leech more off the Korean treasury.

3
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x