Workers are being progressively squeezed by compensation claims and provisional attachments from employers [for holding strikes]. The situation is reversing the gains made with an agreement reached eight years ago in which labor and management said they would refrain from litigation after large indemnification suits led to a series of worker suicides…Underlying the proliferation of compensation claims and attachments by…companies is the tremendous difficulty workers face with holding legal strikes. All substantive strike effort are regarded as “illegal,” and the company routinely uses this illegality as a pretext for taking legal action…Kwon Du-seop, an attorney with the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) Law Center, said, “In a difficult situation where holding a legal strike is next to impossible, workplace damage claims and attachments are primarily being used to suppress striking rights, a basic labor right, and to crack down on unions.” [refers to Doosan Heavy Industries (part of Doosan Group), Hanjin Heavy Industries (part of Hanjin Group), Hyundai Motor, JEI, KEC, Kumho Tire (part of Kumho Asiana), Ssangyong Motor (part of Mahindra & Mahindra), Sewon Tech]