By Lee Kyung-min
A district court has ordered two former Ssangyong Motor workers protesting atop a 70-meter-high chimney inside the firm’s plant to come down or face heavy fines.
If they do not descend by Feb. 19, each will face a 500,000 won fine a day, according to the Suwon District Court.
The two have been on the chimney since Dec. 14 at the factory in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province. They are demanding the reinstatement of 153 workers. The two are also protesting the Supreme Court’s ruling in December that said a mass layoff in 2009 was lawful.
The Suwon court said the two workers were infringing the company’s property rights.
Ssangyong on Jan. 6 filed for the injunction asking the court to order the men down.