They denounced the Railway Corporation for taking an inhumane retaliatory measure against more than 720 workers on Monday for the reason that they took part in strikes against the privatization of the railway service, and demanded an immediate stop to the suppression.

At dawn of the same day, 2 members of the branch of the Seoul Rolling-Stock Office under the Railway Trade Union staged a sit-in strike on top of a 45 meter-high steel tower.