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Police move in against rally held directly before KRWU officers’ planned surrender. ITF photo.
As 13 Korean Railway Workers Union (KRWU) trade union leaders charged with having led what was a legitimate and lawful industrial action made a dignified surrender to police today, the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) blasted the political vendetta behind their arrest. Their placing themselves in the hands of police was delayed by violent police intervention at the headquarters of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU).
Union leaders at the press conference at the KCTU. From left to right: KCTU president Seung-chul Kim, KRWU president Myoung hwan Kim, KPTU president Sang Moo Lee. Photo from the ITF.Speaking at a press conference at the KCTU building, Myoung hwan Kim, president of the ITF-affiliated KRWU, said: “The rail strike last year was a completely legitimate and legal struggle. The past precedents of denouncing workers’ legitimate strikes as illegal, repressing them and enacting disciplinary measures must not be repeated. This will be proven in court in due course.”
ITF president Paddy Crumlin said: “This is joke justice. The dignified...
A plan to allow for the development of a new grain export terminal at the Port of Portland has been cancelled.
Tentative plans for the West Hayden Island project would have included a grain export terminal, an auto processing facility, onsite manufacturing and about 500 acres of natural areas.
To allow for development, however, the property would have to be annexed into the City of Portland. However, environmental mitigation measures required by the commission rendered the plan prohibitively expensive, a port spokesman said.
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