"Tension reaches new height as unionists accuse Yoon at ILO," 13 June 2023

[…] [U]nionists took their concerns that President Yoon Suk Yeol has been suppressing labor unions here to the International Labor Organization's general assembly in Geneva, Switzerland […].

[…] This statement came soon after it was revealed that a complaint against Yoon's anti-union approach was filed with the Committee on Freedom of Association at the International Labor Organization, headquartered in Geneva.

[…] Yang also criticized the Yoon administration for failure to implement ILO's recommendation over the freedom of association and rights to collective bargaining, calling the act "a repudiation of the ILO conventions."

[…] A Korean business lobby group also participating in the ILO general assembly, however, refuted the labor unions' claims.

Lee Dong-geun, vice president of the Korea Enterprises Federation, said in a speech Monday that the labor union's argument about the government's union crackdown is "not factual," and instead the society is reaching a consensus that the illegal activities by labor unions cannot be tolerated, according to the Korea Enterprises Federation in a statement Tuesday.

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