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SOUTH Korean workers walked out for a 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, demanding reform to the country’s restrictive labour laws and economic reform that ends the influence of big business.
Members of the Korean Metal Workers Union (KMWU) joined the strike calling for the guarantee of basic rights to join a trade union, to negotiate terms and conditions and take collective action.
Almost 130,000 KMWU workers across 109 workplaces joined the action as they demanded economic democracy and an end to the dominance of industrial companies known as chaebols over the country’s economy.
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