Stop Kor-US FTA Right Now!

The 4th round of talks on Korea-US FTA is being held from 23th to 27th October, in Jeju Island in South Korea. Just as we had warned, the FTA talks are being driven to an uneven negotiation behind doors, ignoring peoples’ concerns and resistance. Clearly, the FTA is pushed not by peoples’ will but by some officials in Rho administration, strongly supporting neoliberal "open-door" policies.

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Below is a call for a day of international solidarity with Korean workers being organized jointly by the KCTU as well as by the Building and Wood Worker’s International. This event in particular focuses on the struggles of Korean construction workers, whose union comprises both regular and irregular workers, and who have faced a intense summer of harrassment and arrest, especially after the strike in Pohang in August (which you can read about more over at twokoreas blog’s august archives). This was also the strike in which Ha Joong Gun died from injuries inflicted by the riot police. Seems that there will be protests and pickets in front of Korean embassies world wide.