NLCF Initiates Legal Protest

A massive strike by the National Livestock Cooperatives Federation (NLCF) is entering into a new phase as the NLCF declares that it will call only legal protests or rallies from August 16, after having dissolved its sit-in demonstration at Myongong Catholic Church at daybreak of August 15.
Therefore, financial business including the depositing and withdrawing of money at the more than 1,000 NLCF branch offices throughout the nation will resume normal business operations on August 16.
In addition, the NLCF's feed-producing factories, meat-processing factories, and slaughterhouses across the nation are operating as usual.
The NLCF, which has been on large-scale strike in opposition to the expected integration of the NLCF and the National Agricultural Cooperatives Federation on August 14 has decided to send members back to their jobs as NLCF Chairman Shin Ku-bom requested NLCF labor union members to restrain their illegal activity.
Seo Jang-soo:jsbee@joongang.co.kr