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Police Storm South Korea's Plant to End Illegal Strike
Thousands of police stormed South Korea's largest nylon plant at dawn Tuesday, ending a 12-day strike by workers worried about mass layoffs, reports said.
There was no violence during the one-hour raid with most of the 500 workers inside the plant leaving before police moved in, said the report by the national news agency Yonhap.
But six union leaders climbed atop a 120-foot-high chimney, vowing to continue to fight, the report said.
About 3,600 riot police were mobilized for the raid, the report said.
The trouble at Hyosung Corp. in Ulsan, an industrial city 160 miles southeast of Seoul, began on May 24 when the company relocated 14 workers.
The 1,400-member union saw the decision as a prelude to mass layoffs and began an indefinite strike. The union also demanded the release of several leaders arrested earlier for illegal protests.
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