Steel Workers Union Organized

The 2,500 representatives of three steel union groups, the Democratic Metal Workers Federation, the Automobile Federation and the Federation of Hyundai group Unions, held a meeting in Chamshil Sunday, to combine their organizations under the new name of the Consolidated Federation of Steel Workers (CFSW). The new union is composed of 184 smaller unions from the Daewoo, Kia and Hyundai groups and has 190,000 members. Tan Byong-ho, from the emergency committee of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) was appointed as the first head of the union.

The CFSW is mandated to carry out wage negotiations, lay off procedures and contract stipulations, on behalf of its members, with managerial organizations.