It was reported that the IS by the order of traitor Lee Myung Bak worked out a plan for setting up a "sound federation of trade unions" in a bid to suppress and destroy anti-"government" and progressive labor unions and squandered hundred millions of won to carry it out.

The IS also posted on websites the false articles branding the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, National Teachers Union and the Government Employees' Union as "pro-north" organizations.