KCTU General Strike Newsletter # 3

More than 200,000 KCTU Members Participated in the full-fledged General Strike on November 22 Over 170,000 people in 13 cities gathered to protest against the KOR-US FTA on the same day

As expected the South Korean government failed to meet the demands of the Korean Confederation of Trade Union (KCTU) when it had called a four-hour "Warning Strike" on Wednesday, November 15, 2006. At the time, the KCTU had called on the South Korean government to give genuine signals to the KCTU that it wanted to begin a dialogue with the KCTU to discuss their four main demands---to stop the Irregular Workers Bill, to withdraw the Industrial Relations Roadmap Bill, to stop the negotiations of the KORUS free trade agreement, and to fundamentally reform the OHS insurance bill.