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Local Government Blocking Access to a Labor Union's Website [2005] KRNHRC 18 (2 May 2005)

The representative of the Government Employee Labor Union of Incheon Southeast
District and the Head of District Office reached an agreement facilitated by the
Commission on May 2, 2005.

A member of the Government Employee Labor Union of Incheon Southeast District
filed a petition insisting that Incheon Southeast District Office blocked access to the
Union's website from all public offices within the jurisdiction of the Incheon Southeast
District Office in December 2004. And the action was thought to be related with the
Union's strike in November 2004.

The Commission reviewed the materials and statements submitted by both parties and
found a possibility to mediate both parties by drawing a mutual
understanding from both parties and helping them to generate resolutions to
the conflict The Commission began a mediation process under supervision of
the president of the Commission, and both parties reached an agreement. The
labor union agreed that the webmaster

The representative of the Government Employee labor Union of
Incheon Southeast District and the Head of District Office reached
an agreement facilitated by the Commission on May 2, 2005.
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will insure that no real names will appear on the website and delete all the writings that
include libel, profanity, and/or personal attack. In return, the district office agreed to
allow all access to the Union's website from May 2, 2005.
This case has become an example that human rights violations done by state authority
may be resolved more effectively through an alternative dispute resolution mechanism
such as mediation rather than a judiciary mechanism.