The complainants allege that "illegal dispatch" workers, i.e. precarious workers in disguised employment relationships, in Hyundai Motors' Corporation (HMC) Ulsan, Asan and Jeonju plants, Hynix/Magnachip, Kiryung Electronics and KM&I, are effectively denied legal protection under the Trade Union and Labour Relations Adjustment Act (TULRAA) and are left unprotected vis-à-vis: (1) recurring acts of anti-union discrimination, notably dismissals, aimed at thwarting their efforts to establish a union; (2) the consistent refusal of the employer to bargain as a result of which none of the unions representing those workers have succeeded in negotiating a collective bargaining agreement; (3) dismissals, imprisonment and compensation suits claiming exorbitant sums, for "obstruction of business" in case of industrial action; (4) physical assaults, court injunctions and imprisonment for "obstruction of business" aimed at preventing dismissed trade union leaders from re-entering the premises of the company to stage rallies or exercise representation functions
342. The Committee last examined this case at its November 2009 meeting and on that occasion presented an interim report to the Governing Body [see 355th Report, paras 621-678, approved by the Governing Body at its 306th Session].
343. The Government sent its observations in a communication dated 7 October 2010 and 8 February 2011.
344. The Republic of Korea has not ratified the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), or the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98).