Over the years, the labor in this company worked hard so that the corporation steadily grew to the point where it was able to build a large scale factory in China. However, because of this, Korean labor is now suffering from capital withdrawal, and business reduction. In addition, the head office in Japan has been reducing orders since December, 1995 and they were greatly reduced from January, 1996, so that workers were only given two or three hours of work a day which made them very anxious about their employment.

After the union executives were forced from their jobs and since the president visited Japan, we have worked overtime since May. It seems that carrying out the plan of business reduction by fake factory shutdown, and by destroying the workers' union using any means are the work of the Japanese head office, which was carried out by Koreans who did not realize what they were doing to their native workers.

There is no end to the oppression of capitalist

Because the manufacturing of the watch letter plate lost international competitiveness, the company on its way to closing or downsizing Korean Sambon and moving to China, first tried to destroy the labor union. They purposely withheld wages and caused employment instability and they tried to make the environment less positive by making the male managers and labor oppose the union.

This plan was unsuccessful so they broke into the union office and purposely committed violence against the managing staff (two staff needed to be hospitalized). The company did not end its action there but also accused the staff for losses incurred.

The company also forced the union members to choose between withdrawal from the union and dismissal by using violence and so most of the workers withdrew from the union. The ones who did not withdraw from the union were fired. By reason of not signing the collective bargaining agreement by the 16th, the president announced the closing down of the company.

After that, the male managers being the central leaders, imprisoned the managing staff and forced them to resign after verbally and physically abusing them.

After the president said that he would not cancel plans to close down the company for the previous managing staff, the company more strongly placed pressure on them to resign by using more violence. The union could no longer stand up against this violence.

Hence, the company wielded its power over the executive staff and broke up the union and now the factory is back on a regular work schedule. Their violence did not stop there. They achieved what they wanted - a shift in the working population, sale of a subsidiary company Changwon Electronic;

yet they were not satisfied at that point. They then fired the six executive staff of the labor union.

Outwardly a new good relationship between managers and workers

Finally, it turns out that the management reduction and announcement of company closure was false, and violent means were used to break up the democratically run union.

Also, the government said that they would change the relationship between the company and labor. However, the working area where we are has not changed a bit. The Korean Sambon capital has carried out non-democratic and illegal action to break up the democratic labor union, however, the government has not done anything to straighten out the problem, yet.

They just made the situation worse by not doing anything. The mass media reported the change between labor and management but the actual working place is not affected by that at all. With this trend, transnational company labor will always be anxious about their employment and their life will be uncomfortable under such circumstances.

In opposing this problem, we the workers are disclosing the wrongdoing of the transnational company and continue to fight for our demands. We will fight until the day that we will be happily working with our co-workers by protecting labors' self-autonomy, and until the day we are free from violence committed by the company.