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Phoenix

Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| Butterfly wrote: |
And the others still haven't been paid. I think he's paying you because you're crucial to the business as the native speaker teacher, not because he's scared of the labor board, the others still haven't been paid right? They can all go to the labor board too.
I think you could be very influential here in getting them their money.
You're breaking a strike. |
Well it turns out that 2 of the teachers have been paid now - the 2 teachers who stayed away every day last week.
The other teachers returned to the school on Friday after being paid small fractions of their salaries (100,000 won each with the "promise" of the rest to come later), but the 2 who stayed away got their money paid in full.
Everyone was united at the outset of this problem, but they had their own ideas of how to resolve it - for myself and 2 of the teachers it worked out just fine, but the others tried a different route and it didn't work.
Now a firm offer has come in to take all the teachers and all the students to a new school under a new boss - and divisions have sprung up again. The offer of working with the same contract & conditions appeals to me greatly (it'd be hard to find the same deal I currently have elsewhere) so I'm all for it...
We'll see what happens from here-on in. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: Kuwait
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| Good luck |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| Divide and conquer: never fails, ever. |
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batman

Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Location: Oh so close to where I want to be
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| ffl007 wrote: |
| How about a baseball bat or any other long solid object and then confront the guy. Yes, it does sound primitive but, then again Korea does have it's throw back ways and customs. Adapt. |
Or how clearing out the contents of the school-supplied apartment at a yardsale?
Or how about a little old-fashion accidental fire?
Or how about scaring the students the hell out of the school?
Or how about making up some posters and offering the school some free (negative) advertising?
Or you could just go to the labour board, immigration, the tax office and the pension office (not as exciting, but still effective). |
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