calendar>>January 27. 2016 Juche 105

KCTU Declares General Strike in Protest against Authorities' Retrogressive Revision of Labor Law

Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) on January 23 declared a general strike in protest against the authorities' announcement of the guidelines for the retrogressive revision of the labor law.

That day the KCTU held a meeting to declare a general strike in Seoul.

At the end of the meeting at Seoul Railway Station its participants staged a demonstration as far as Seoul Square.

Then more than 5,000 unionists held a rally there for declaring a general strike to hold in check the retrogressive revision of the labor law and shatter the "government's" guidelines.

They declared they would kick off a general strike on January 25.