Conflicts over the dismissal of 100 workers still remains unsettled, so they are continuing their protests by setting up the dismissed workers' re-employment struggle committee. By carefully looking at individual workplaces, we can see that women's jobs have been reduced by company restructuring plans that shut down female-dominated departments. They closed the Dept. of General Affairs where many women workers are concentrated. Moreover, the company planned to re-employ some of them as contractual workers. The clerical assistant division, for example, is made up of 33 women and one man.
Clerical assistants do work for the general division as well as manual and miscellaneous things.
Just because they are women, they have to work the lowest level jobs under harsh and discriminatory working conditions. Now they are also being unfairly dismissed. They argued that no negotiation took place with the union nor did management attempt to avoid dismissals. Thus, they went on strike. On last 29 July, after a 40 day struggle, an agreement was eventually reached.