Prior to the action, they held a press conference.

Speakers there described the five years of Lee Myung Bak's office as a period of bitter tears for the workers as they were subject to lay-off, detention and crackdown, adding that they were forced to live like slaves under the present regime.

A great number of workers were fired to roam the streets, and some of them staged a sit-in strike on the top of steel tower in demand of their vital rights and committed suicides in protest against the layoff, they said, and went on:

However, the authorities remain a passive onlooker to these tragedies.

They expressed the determination to stage the second and third strikes in case the authorities refuse to accept their demands.

At the end of the press conference the workers staged the sit-in strike on the spot.