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http://www.demotix.com/news/510409/seoul-workers-3m-factories-usa-rally-against-strike-breakers
250 workers from a 3M (USA) Factory protested in Seoul against the use of strike breakers in their Factory as well as against payment cuts and violence of workers rights. Police forces kept them away from the US-Embassy. Seoul, Korea. 17/11/2010.
Today the Korean Metal Workers Union (KMWU) staged several demonstrations against their Employer 3M, an US-American multinational conglomerate which has several Factories in South Korea. 3M used strike breakers in the last months against striking workers and several workers got heavily wounded. Also there where cuts in payments and actions against Union Members. A branch leader of the KMWU set himself on fire two weeks before the G20 Summit in Seoul to protest against police arrests from striking 3M Workers.
Around 60 Protesters protested around noon at the Central Government Building in Seoul as well as near the US-Embassy. Heavy Police forces prevented around ten protesters to protest directly in front of the US-Embassy.
In the afternoon around 250 Workers protested directly in front of an 3M Business building against the Unions harassment as well as the high death tolls due to bad working conditions. Demonstrators threw eggs against the builduing, but the police did not intervene.
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