On July 12, 2011, a group of Vietnamese workers arrested on a charge of engaging in illegal strike were found not guilty and were released. This is one of many examples that the South Korean government is oppressing migrant workers in South Korea and is in grave violation of their human rights and workers rights. Nevertheless, it is also a prime example that migrant workers in solidarity with Korean workers are fighting back.
In 2005, a few hundreds of migrant workers have formed a migrant trade union in order to protect migrant workers’ rights. Despite the high court’s ruling to recognize the Migrant Trade Union in 2007, the case is still pending at the Supreme Court while every leader of the trade union is arrested and deported.
To build up a pressure against the South Korean government at the trial of the current MTU chair Michel, the MTU would like to round up the signatures by September 10, 2011. Please send the signatures to CJ Park before September 10. Download the petition here.
On July 12, 2011, a group of Vietnamese workers arrested on a charge of engaging in illegal strike were found not guilty and were released. This is one of many examples that the South Korean government is oppressing migrant workers in South Korea and is in grave violation of their human rights and workers rights. Nevertheless, it is also a prime example that migrant workers in solidarity with Korean workers are fighting back.
In 2005, a few hundreds of migrant workers have formed a migrant trade union in order to protect migrant workers’ rights. Despite the high court’s ruling to recognize the Migrant Trade Union in 2007, the case is still pending at the Supreme Court while every leader of the trade union is arrested and deported.
To build up a pressure against the South Korean government at the trial of the current MTU chair Michel, the MTU would like to round up the signatures by September 10, 2011. Please send the signatures to CJ Park before September 10. Download the petition here.
