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Today, we came together in the 'Korean Women Workers Rally' in commemoration of the international women's day, to succeed to the struggling will of women workers in US in 1908, who demanded on their rights to work and freedom of association, to over come the current crisis and to construct our new future. Under the pretext of the current economic crisis, Korean women workers have become unemployed, due to the social practices that illegal retrenchment is prevalent and women are the first targeted for lay-offs. Their livelihoods have deteriorated more severly by the forced replacement by irregular workers, lowered wages, and worsened working conditions. In addition, under the excuse of economic crisis, even minimum levels of maternity protection are not practiced and supports for child-care deteriorate dramatically. Life-long and equal rights to work which women workers have improved, are now trampped on. Our lives are in extreme crisis. We are now forced to be victimized no longer. We will carry out strong struggles against all oppressions and discrimination in the current economic crisis, in order to realize job security and equal employment of women workers. We make the following resolution to consolidate our struggling will;
We resolve to carry out much stronger struggles in solidarity, to realize our demands. In addition, we resolve to take affirmative action for the increase in women workers' participation in major executive committees in trade unions and to try our best to organize irregular workers, workers in small-size firms, and unemployed women and to establish industry-based trade unions. Written on March 6, 1999 |