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Seoul: A major South Korean labour group will take part in a one-day strike next month to protest President Lee Myung-bak’s economic reforms, it said on Tuesday.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, which represents auto, healthcare and financial service workers, will go one strike for one day on July 2, the group’s spokesman said.
"We will be going on a full-out strike for one day on July 2," the spokesman said by telephone. "Following that, individual member unions will be holding separate strikes."
Seventy per cent of the group’s 600,000 members voted to go on strike against Lee’s privatisation plans, pro-business economic reforms and the deal his government signed to resume imports of US beef.
The labour union at Hyundai Motor Co will join in the KCTU strike.
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