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Korean Workers Strike Over Labour Reform Bill

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26 July, 2005

About 120,000 South Korean workers staged a four-hour strike Friday, 1 April, that should serve as a prelude to a larger, nationwide strike if the National Assembly passes legislation to liberalise the use of contract and agency labour.

Some 231 workplaces took part in the four-hour shutdown called by the Korean Federation of Trade Unions.

In addition to the bill on the use of non-regular workers, unions are calling on the government to come down hard on companies abusing South Korea’s so-called “anti-illegal dispatch law,” meant as a control to illegal employment practices but a statute continually violated by multinational companies.