Between 110,000 and 120,000 members of the Korean Metal Workers' Union held a half-day strike today, and plan to walk out for six hours tomorrow to protest South Korea's impending trade deal with the United States. The 150,000-member union -- South Korea's largest -- believes the deal will degrade wages and working conditions in both nations, and "pit the American workers against the Korean workers in a race to the bottom."
See "Korean workers step up strikes against trade pact", International Herald Tribune, June 27, 2007