[no.4]women's campaign carried out on obtaining minimum wage

	one person relay demonstration carried out for condemning violent police against candlelight demonstration and stepping down the police commander
	Women's organizations such as Korean Women Workers Association, Korean Women's Associations United, Women Corea, Schoolbob, and Korean Womenlink demanded police commander Eu Cheongsoo should be stepped down and punish policemen in charge of violence against peaceful candlelight demonstrations. In the one person relay demonstration carried out 3 days straight, a candlelight tower was set up and lit for 55 hours to express women's anger against and retirement of the police commander responsible for suppressive violence against peaceful demonstrations. Jung Moon-ja vice president, Kimshin Hae-jung and Shin Myeongjin From KWWA, joined the 'one person relay demonstration' between 1pm ~5 pm on June 8th, 2008.
	women's campaign carried out on obtaining minimum wage of 1 million Won -"Without money people can't help eating US mad cow beef"
	Minimum wages have been increased little by little. In 2008, the minimum wage is set as 3,770 Won per hour and 787,930 Won a month by a standard of 40 hours. However, the initial minimum wage was so low that it has hardly been able to catch up with sharply increasing commodity prices. In 2008 there were only 8.3% increase compared to a minimum wage of 727,930 Won (3,480 Won per hour) in 2007. Most cleaners receiving minimum wages are female householders, and so their incomes usually mean those by their whole families. Demands made by workers receiving a minimum wage are desperate and urgent. They say "I would have no more wishes if I receive 1 million Won," the wage that they can maintain their minimum livelihood.  Let's look at an example: more>>
	workshop on 'Indirect Employment' Held for Hotline for Equality's Counselors
	During a workshop in May 27th, 2008, Eun Soomi (a researcher of Korea Labor Institute) delivered a lecture on indirect employment to counselors belonging to Hotline for Equality and Ko Gyeongseop, a certified labor attorney carried out some case studies with counselors. During the lecture, we at KWWA had a good time to share and think over what indirect employments are, what situations of indirect employment women workers face, how indirect employments have been changed since the enactment of Irregular Employment Act, what causes are of increasing indirect employment, and what counter-measures we can take. In particular, it is noticeable that other forms of employments such as subcontracted workers have been increasing while the number of fixed term employment has been declined.  Eun Soomi pointed out the fact that there have been rises in indirect employment, since labor management by employers has largely preferred indirect labor management to direct one. more>>