▲ Unionized railway workers on December 19 shout slogans in front of the Seoul Railway Station with a banner reading 'Respect the labor and management agreement on the normalization of railway operation and stop reprimanding the workers who returned from the walkout.(Yoon Ja-eun)
The Korean Railway Workers' Union(KRWU) called on its management side of the Korea Railroad Corporation(Korail) to resume the normal operation of some plants which had been closed during the strike period.
According to the KRWU, 35 workers have not been able to resume their work for ten days now after railway workers finished their 74-day strike. When the KRWU went on a strike on September 27, the Korail shut down a train maintenance plant in Bundang. The KRWU is suspicious of the intention of the management to outsource the maintenance plant to reprimand the workers who joined the strike.
reported by Yoon Ja-eun
translated by Kim Sung-jin