Two national trade union centers in Korea, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions(FKTU) and Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(KCTU), agreed to drive their organizational capacities to upgrade the precarious jobs to regular employment status in the public sector and strengthen the basic labor rghts.
They also agreed to jointly organize nationwide signature collection campaigns to urge the government to ratify the core ILO conventions concerning freedom of association and right to organize, collective bargaining and forced labor.
reported by Jeh Jeong-nam
translated by Kim Sung-jin