URGENT ACTION ALERT FROM SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - TRADE UNIONISTS ARRESTED *** Please copy this message to other mailing lists; print it out and post it on bulletin boards in factories and union offices; pass it on to friends, colleagues, journalists, political leaders. *** We've just received an urgent alert from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions informing us that today at 3:40 in the morning, riot police broke into the office of the Daewoo Motors Workers Union in Pupyung, near Seoul. They arrested everyone there and continue to hold in custody all the top union leaders. They are accused of the "crime" of leading a militant struggle to save the jobs of Korean auto workers. The full text of the KCTU statement is now available on the LabourStart website at: http://www.labourstart.org/korea/kctu250400.shtml For background on the struggle at Daewoo, see: http://www.labourstart.org/korea/ To put continuously updated Korean labour news on your website -- AND to keep your own readers informed of fast-breaking developments -- simply add the following line of code somewhere on your website: <script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.labourstart.org/cgi- bin/labournewswire/labourstart.kr.js"></script> Eric Lee P.S. If you received this message and are not on the LabourStart mailing list, you can join it by sending a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
