Category: South Korea

UNI affiliate, the Korea Health & Medical Workers’ Union (KHMU), urged the Korean government to stand firm and not renege on its plans to strengthen the country’s public medical service. The union held a press conference last week in front of the National Assembly building to denounce the government’s caving to the demands of the medical doctor associations to scrap the health reform plans announced earlier in July. 

Commemorating on the 40th anniversary of the Gwangju People’s Uprising on May 18 in 1980, the South Korean Office of WFTU held the demonstrations in front of the Seoul Government Complex. Gwangju Uprising is a history of the anti-US struggle. The South Korean Office of WFTU will inherit the spirit of Gwangju Uprising under the banner of WFTU and surely withdraw the US troops, the source of war and root of all evil, from South Κorea.

After nine months of organising, workers at UPS in South Korea have won their first ever collective bargaining agreement at the company. As part of the agreement, the American logistics giant has agreed to end forced unpaid overtime and improve pay standards. The workers union, the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union (KPTU), says that negotiations with UPS had stalled until unions in the UK and USA got involved.

The leadership of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) held an online meeting on the morning of March 16, 2020 to share their experiences in combating COVID-19 pandemic.  KCTU president, Brother Kim Myeong-hwan, HKCTU Chairperson, Sister Carol Ng, and HKCTU General Secretary, Brother Lee Cheuk Yan, exchanged the workers situations in South Korea and Hong Kong, who are both facing repercussions of retrenchments such as lay-offs and unpaid leaves.  Meanwhile, union leaders from both sides condemned their corresponding government’s epidemic relieve…

According to the South Korean Ministry of Health, Welfare and Disease Control, at least 29 people have died due to heatstroke in South Korea. The WFTU expresses its sincere condolences to the families and friends of the of the dead people. Unfortunately, whether it is a heat-wave or any other natural disaster, always the workers, the ordinary people, are unprotected, suffer and pay with their lives the lack of safety measures.

The information war against Russia continues unabated. The world has witnessed several rounds of it already. One gets the impression that a number of states have already grown accustomed to attributing all of their domestic political problems to Russia’s alleged cyber interference. Now we have entered a new stage of the information war, featuring an even more far-reaching and unsubstantiated accusation: that Russia is planning to attack the ideals of the Olympic movement.