On the 9th, when the cargo union decided to stop the general strike after a member’s vote, the union members are crying after hearing the news of the vote at the Seoul Gyeonggi regional headquarters of the cargo union in Uiwang-si , Gyeonggi-do. Reporter Seong Dong-hun
On the 13th, four days after the strike was withdrawn from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) Cargo Solidarity Headquarters (Cargo Solidarity), the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (Critical Response Headquarters), which the government operated to respond to this , concluded its operation.
On this day, the heavy script announced that “because the warning of crisis in the field of land freight has been downgraded from ‘serious’ to ‘caution’, the heavy script has been lifted.” The Ministry of Public Administration and Security activated an important script on the 28th of last month, the fifth day of the general strike of the cargo unions. At the time, Public Administration and Security Minister Lee Sang-min said, “According to the Disaster Safety Act, the paralysis of the logistics system is a social disaster.”
It was the first time since the government started implementing the heavy script in 2004 that the government has adopted a serious script to respond to the workers’ strike. Criticisms arose that the government violated constitutionally guaranteed workers’ rights and distorted the meaning of the strike by executing an unusually heavy-handed script and even invoking a “business start order” for the first time in history.
President Yoon Seok-yeol has stirred up controversy by expressing harsh responses to the general strike by cargo unions, such as “it’s like a North Korean nuclear threat” and “there will be no lawlessness or compromise within the mandate.”
Earlier, on the 24th of last month, the cargo union called a general strike, demanding the abolition of the sunset of the safe tariff system and the expansion of the applicable articles. The cargo union ended the strike on the 9th with a vote of union members as the government order to start the business continued.
