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Police conducted surprising searches and seizure raids on the offices of the striking Korea Railway Workers' Union (KRWU) and Korean Government Employees' Union (KGEU) on Tuesday. On the same day, the Korea Labor Institute (KLI) Became the first public institution to implement a lockout. In response, critics are charging that the Lee administration is being excessive in suppressing labor movements made among government workers and in the public sector for reasons such as advancing public corporations. At 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Seoul's Yongsan Police Station dispatched some 30 officers to two Yongsan area offices of the KRWU, which is currently on its sixth day of a strike. Computer hard disks and documents were among the materials confiscated from the offices. Police also formed a special division for apprehending the leaders behind the strike and set out to locate 15 executive members of the KRWU for whom arrest warrants have been issued, among them Kim Ki-tae, head of KRWU. Paek Nam-hee, director of the KRWU's public relations bureau, said, "When the government responds to labor-management issues by mobilizing the authorities and interfering through searches and seizures, it only worsens labor-management issues." Sent via my BlackBerry Device from Vodacom - let your email find you! -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
