Ssangyong occupation update: day ten, July 29, 2009 July 29, 2009 is day 10 (corrected: the police assault began July 20). Medical workers and other community solidarity supporters attempted to…
Ssangyong occupation update: day nine, July 28, 2009 Yesterday (Monday, July 27, 2009) evening at 6:30, taking 40 minutes, around 3,000 police (out of a total of 9,000 cops surrounding the factory)…
Ssangyong occupation update: days seven/eight, July 26-27, 2009 The police are closing in on the paint department, but the strikers occupying the factory are not…
Ssangyong occupation update: day six, July 25, 2009 Brief update: management failed to show up for the tripartite meeting today (Saturday, July 24, 2009), saying "Talks would be meaningless unless…
Ssangyong occupation update: day five, July 24, 2009 Today it became apparent that with the constant spraying of teargas tainted with thinner, strikers are suffering from their skin blistering and…
Ssangyong occupation update: day four, July 23, 2009 This report, from yesterday, is about the 3rd day of the police attack to evict the occupiers of the Ssangyong Motors factory at Pyeongtaek in…
Wind turbine manufacturing workers occupy company offices Workers from the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight who are set to lose their jobs are…
Korean police fail to break Ssangyong factory occupation South Korean police were not able to carry through with a pledge to enter a Ssangyong Motor Co…
French 'explosion-threat' workers win redundancy pay A group of French workers facing layoffs obtained extra money after threatening to blow up industrial equipment at their plant, labor union…
Korean Sanggyong strike up against the wall The Ssangyong Motors strike in Pyeongtaek, South Korea (near Seoul), is now in its eighth week, and the situation of the strikers is increasingly…
