Striking bank workers brace for police rai | Nation and World New
by By Jae-Suk Yoo, Associated Press Write
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ILSAN, South Korea — Police deployed hundreds more troopers Tuesday around a site where thousands of striking bank work-ers have been rallying, raising the possibility of a raid to put a stop to the five-day protest. Union employees at two major banks — Kookmin and Housing & Commercial — have been striking since Friday to protest their employers' plan for a merger that unions fear will result in layoffs. The number of protesters has dropped over the Christmas holidays to 8,000 from around 15,000. But the strikers vowed to continue the fight until the merger, planned for June, is scrapped. Concerned about moves by workers at other banks to stage sympathy walkouts, police suggested Tuesday that they may break up the strikers holed up at a bank training institute at Ilsan, 4 miles north of Seoul
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