Showing posts with label KCTU. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

A statue of wartime labor drafts unveiled in South Korea



 On Aug. 12, a ceremony to unveil the memorial statue and a cultural festival for peace was held in Incheon to bear in mind those relinquished laborers during Japan’s cruel colonial rule of Korea. Members of “Nore no kai,” a group in support for ‘comfort woman,’ or sexual slavery, attended the festival and sang some songs.
Kim Chungon, the head of the ‘Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) Incheon headquarters led the movement to build the monument.
“We had pledged never to forget the agony our predecessors had to go through and how their human rights were devastated as they were forced to work against their will under the Japanese imperialism,” Kim said. “Thereupon today we came to erect a monument of the drafted laborers here. The government of Japan, an offender, has yet to recognize the suppression of human rights and the drafted labor in those days.
“Beginning today, we must come to terms with the remains of the Japanese imperialism in our society, revise the distorted history, reveal the truth about Japanese colonial days so that the history is not repeated.” (OZAWA Kuniko)

韓国・仁川で「徴用労働者像除幕式&平和文化祭」~ノレの会が参加

8月12日、韓国の仁川(インチョン)で、日本の植民地時代に侵略戦争に動員され、
ま た兵器工場などの労働に動員された労働者を記憶し平和を願う、徴用労働者像除
幕式&平 和文化祭があり、ノレの会として参加し、歌ってきました。主催者で、徴
用労働者像仁川建立推進委員会の中心を担ってきた韓国民主労総仁川本部のキム・
チャンゴン本部長があいさつしました。「植民地で、また意に添わず連行された地
で、日本帝国の人権蹂躙と強制労働に服さなければならなかった先輩たちの、血のに
じむ苦しみを決して忘れないと誓った約束で、今日ここに強制徴用労働者像を建てる
ことにな った。加害国日本はいまだ人権蹂躙と強制労働・徴用を認めていない。今
日をはじめとして、私たちは社会にある日帝時代の名残りを清算し、歪曲された歴史
を正し、植民地時代の真相を明らかにし、これ以上このような歴史が繰り返されない
ようにすることが私たちの課題だ」と話しました。(尾澤邦子)

Monday, February 27, 2017

Kim Jong Jin speaks groundbreaking labor administration of South Korean capital



 
 On Feb. 14, KIM JONG JIN, research fellow of Korean Labor and Society Institute, spoke at a symposium titled, “New challenge of labor policy, labor administration of a city: Seoul,” at Ryukoku University in Kyoto City. Approximately 40 people including researchers, lawyers and union officials participated in the day of lectures and question-and-answer sessions, in which almost whole of Seoul City's revolutionary labor administration was revealed. The participants who heard about it for the first time appeared considerably shocked. Since taking office in October 2011, Park Won Soon, mayor of Seoul, has implemented ordinance one after another, such as direct employment of the non-regular workers in the public sector, converting non-regular status to a permanent one, labor rights advocacy, living wage (a guaranteed living wage that is higher than the minimum wage), emotional labor, and worker management (director) participation. From April this year, a 40-hour work week will be tested out with an aim to implement it in 2020. It will be implemented if concerned labor unions such as Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU) reach an agreement after half a year of discussion. (By SHIRAISHI Takashi)



ソウル市の画期的な労働行政を学ぶ~金鐘珍研究委員が来日

2月14日、京都市の龍谷大学で、韓国労働社会研究所金鐘珍(キム・ジョンジン/
写真左)研究委員による「労働政策の新たな挑戦、都市の労働行政:ソウル市」が開
催されました。研究者、弁護士、労組関係者など40人ほどが参加、全一日かけて、講
義とコメント、質疑をじっくりと行い、ソウル市の画期的な労働行政の全容が、ほぼ
明らかにされました。初めて聞く参加者には、相当な衝撃が走ったようです。2011年
10月の市長就任以降、公共部門の非正規労働者の直接雇用+無期転換をはじめ、労働
者権利擁護、生活賃金(最賃以上に生活出来る賃金を保障)、感情労働、労働者経営
(理事)参加などの条例を次々と実施、今年4月からは完全週40時間労働制を2020年実
施に向けた試行にも入ります。これに関しては、民主労総、韓国労総など関係労組と
半年かけて協議、合意してのスタートです。(白石孝)