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[mayday2k] Reuters: South Korea police storm occupied
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South Korea police storm occupied Telecom building
SEOUL, March 29 (Reuters) - South Korean protesters hurled petrol
bombs at
hundreds of police as they broke through a barricade and ended a
sit-in by
laid-off Korea Telecom workers occupying a branch in southern Seoul.
Around 200-laid off workers occupied the building early in the
morning,
demanding the company re-hire them as regular employees.
"Retract layoffs!, Re-hire us as regular workers!," shouted the
laid-off
workers as they retreated to the building's roof top, driven by the
baton-wielding police.
A small truck and 10 motorcycles were destroyed by fire as protesters
threw
petrol bombs at the approaching police.
Police said they detained 198 protesters, who resisted, hurling
furniture and
computer terminals.
Police said media reports they had used smoke bombs against the
workers were
not true.
No casualties were reported and a Korea Telecom spokesman said the
strike had
not disrupted its telephone services.
"Their demands are hardly acceptable when the company is laying off
even
regular employees as part of its restructuring and privatisation
efforts,"
said the spokesman, who declined to be identified.
The company has laid off 12,000 full-time workers over the past three
years
and planned to cut an additional 3,000.
Korea Telecom employs 47,000 workers, of whom 38,000 are union
members. The
company also employs about 8,000 contract or temporary workers.
The government plans to reduce its stake in state-run Korea Telecom to
33.4
percent from 58.9 percent by the end of this year and will sell off
all of
its remaining shares by the first half of 2002.
Shares of Korea Telecom ended unchanged at 56,500 won on Thursday.
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