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| Hyundai workers join anti-U.S. protest |
| 2007-06-29 |
 Union workers at Hyundai, South Korea's biggest automaker, staged a partial strike Thursday against a free trade agreement with the United States. The workers were off the job for four hours, and plan to repeat the work stoppage for six hours Friday, a union official told the Yonhap news service. Hyundai workers joined the weeklong nationwide protests organized by the Korean Metal Workers' Union. They claim the pending U.S. trade pact threatens their jobs. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 IIRC there's a pretty large chunk of SORKS who resent America, Americans in uniform especially and don't wish her to well. so be it, btw when are we leaving that God forsaken place.. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-06-29 19:42 |
| #7 Fine with me. I don't like Hyundais and now like them even less. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-06-29 16:44 |
| #6 > They claim the pending U.S. trade pact threatens their jobs. If they think they are employed solely because they force their fellow citizens to choose their products, then maybe they should get some morals. Remember there are always more consumers than producers. Pandering to producers at the expense of consumers will harm your economy. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-06-29 13:20 |
| #5 I think this is more of a union thing than a anti-US thing. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-06-29 10:39 |
| #4 Americans gave you all that you have. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-06-29 10:34 |
| #3 They're fine with the US market being open to their vehicles, where as far as I know Hyundai is competing fairly well (I've notice a number on the roads and my grocery store parking lot. But God forbid they be challenged on their monopolized turf, lest they loose face by significantly losing sales. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-29 08:19 |
| #2 They claim the pending U.S. trade pact threatens their jobs. Their jobs? Funny we're worried about the same thing. The French and Germans, too. Could it be perople don't like change? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-06-29 05:46 |
| #1 No problem, I wouldn't buy a Hyundai anyway... |
| Posted by: imoyaro 2007-06-29 03:44 |