Cabbies tussle with police outside Yongsan Garrison (xpost from Veterans)

[unhappycamper]

Taxi drivers clash briefly with South Korean riot police on Thursday at one of the entrances to U.S. Army Garrison-Yongsan.


Cabbies tussle with police outside Yongsan Garrison
By Ashley Rowland, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, May 31, 2008

SEOUL — Taxi drivers from U.S. Army Garrison-Yongsan and Camp Casey tussled with South Korean riot police outside the garrison on Thursday, their ninth day on a full strike.

The drivers began a partial strike in late April because of a salary dispute with their employer, World Cup Arirang Tourism Co.

Organizers said about 200 drivers attended Thursday’s protest. The drivers, most wearing red headbands, chanted underneath the north side of the bridge separating Yongsan’s main and south posts early in the afternoon.

At about 2:30 p.m., the group crossed the street and confronted the police, pushing against the officers’ shields for two or three minutes before retreating.

The drivers then marched to other entrances around the base. Several carried signs, written in Korean, that complained of unfair wages and of the taxi company’s profit percentage.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=55208

[FreakinDJ]

1. Why protest at 8th Army headquarters

they are not allowed on base