막내린 426일 세계 최장기 굴뚝농성…파인텍 노사협상 극적타결<br /><br />The world's longest ongoing labor demonstration comes to an end today.<br />After reaching a deal with management, two employees at a South Korean manufacturing company came down from the top of a smokestack at a power plant... after carrying out their protest for over 400 days.<br />Seo Eunkyung has the full story. <br />Today, two men came down from the smokestack in Seoul where they'd been for 426 days demanding their jobs back.<br />They're part of a five-member union working for a small company called FineTek, which makes display equipment.<br />Its parent company is called Starflex.<br />The two separate occasions since 2010, Starflex had promised the five men years of job security -- only to fire them both times.<br />The first time, they won back their jobs after a protest lasting 408 days.<br />To rehire them, Starflex set up FineTek.<br />But only nine months later, in 2016, they were let go again when Starflex decided to close FineTek down.<br />Under the deal struck today with Starflex, the three men from the smokestack and their two fellow union members... will be guaranteed three years on the job.<br />Their pay will be 89 U.S. cents above the minimum wage,... and the factory where they work will be reopened on June 1st.<br />Seo Eun-kyung, Arirang News.<br />
