Anti-terrorist weapons mobilized when police broke up 2009 Ssangyong strike: truth committee
Social affairsAug 28, 2018
Police commandos used anti-terrorist weapons, such as stun guns and multipurpose launchers, when breaking up a 2009 strike by Ssangyong Motor workers under an operation authorized by the office of then-President Lee Myung-bak, a truth committee said Tuesday.Unionized Ssangyong workers went on strike in May 2009 in protest of the management's restructuring plan and seized the assembly plant in the city of Pyeongtaek for two and a half months.The 76-day strike ended when police went in and broke i