▲ Jeon Young-soo(right) and Lee Seong-ho, both are belonging to the Hyundai Heavy Industries(HHI) In-house Subcontractors Local Union in Ulsan, have been staging a high altitude sit-in protest from April 11 to call for the guarantee of trade union rights and the abrogation of the blacklist against trade unionists.(Courtesy of HHI In-house Subcontractors Local Union)
▲ Six workers struggling in the years-long unsettled labor disputes, each from different workplaces organized by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(KCTU), have been staging a high altitude sit-in protest with fasting over 20 days at Gwangwhamun Square in central Seoul. Seen from front to rear; Kim Kyung-rae, Kim Hye-jin, Jang Jae-young, Oh Soo-il, Lee In-geun and Goh Jin-soo(selfie by Kim Kyung-rae)

These workers in the high altitude sit-in protests are subcontractor workers who were laid off due to the industrial restructuring or their involvement in trade union activities.

reported by Je Jeong-nam
translated by Kim Sung-jin

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