2023-08-25 08:21:18
Ssangyong Motors workers belonging to the Korea Metal Workers’ Union hold a press conference on the afternoon of the 25th at the Seoul High Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul to announce their position following the ruling on the remand trial for the destruction of national damages. Reporter Baek So-ah [email protected]
“Even if it is hot for just one season, it is suffocating and exhausting, but our grandparents live in a state of choking during 14 years and 56 seasons change.” On the 25th, a remand trial was held to destroy a damages lawsuit filed by the state against the Ssangyong Motors branch of the Korea Metal Workers’ Union and Ssangyong Motor workers, demanding compensation for police equipment damaged during the 2009 Ssangyong Motor strike. At a press conference held in front of the Seoul High Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul right after the judge’s verdict, Chae Hee-guk, a Ssangyong Motor worker, said, “I want to escape from the transparent prison that cannot be released even after 14 years.” At the time, the state, which even mobilized helicopters to cause controversy over illegal and radical suppression, dragged the claim for damages against workers and others for 14 years until the remand trial that day. The judgment of the judge of the reversal trial was far from Chae’s wishes. The court ordered the labor union and individual workers to pay back the principal amount of 166.88 million won in damages and the resulting interest, totaling 286 million won. The lawsuit began when the state filed a lawsuit against the workers, claiming that Ssangyong Motor workers occupied the Pyeongtaek plant for 77 days to protest against the company’s layoffs in 2009, and that equipment was damaged and policemen were injured in the course of a sit-in. In November of last year, the Supreme Court overturned the case and remanded it to the High Court, saying, “If union members damaged police equipment in the process of direct resistance (at the time of the police strikedown) to avoid harm to life or body, this constitutes self-defense.” In the course of the remand trial, the court issued a mediation plan to hold only the labor union responsible for damages, not individual union members, but the mediation failed as the government filed an objection. In the end, there was no exemption from liability for damages to individual union members, which was included in the original adjustment plan in the sentencing that day. The court ordered the union and its members to pay the principal and interest of damages together. Regarding this, Seo Beom-jin, a lawyer at the Korea Metal Workers’ Union, said at a press conference, “Basically, the mediation plan was talked about exempting individual union members from liability for damages, but the state and the police rejected it.” It is a very harsh ruling for workers, and it is a worrisome ruling that shows the nation’s problematic viewpoint on workers’ strikes.” Kim Deuk-joong, head of the Ssangyong Motors branch of the Korea Metal Workers’ Union, said, “We received a mediation plan to end the time of losing a colleague who lived in pain due to state violence for 14 years, but the police turned a blind eye to it.” I am angry at this behavior of not letting them go until the end.” Lee Chan-woo, senior vice chairman of the Korea Metal Workers’ Union, said, “The state agency goes beyond prejudice against labor unions and defines it as a situation in which labor is suppressed.” It is a judicial point of view, and we deplore the situation in which the administration and the judiciary are not aware of any problem with the suppression of the labor union’s exercise of the third right of labor.” Reporter Jang Hyun-eun [email protected]
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