Attending it were more than 15,000 workers from construction enterprises across south Korea carrying slogan boards "We want to lead a human life," "Let's gain basic labor rights" and "Shatter suppression of trade unions."

Speeches were made by Kim Yong Hun, chairman of the Confederation, Kim Kum Chol, chairman of the Construction Union, and others.

They deplored that big businessmen engage themselves in irregularities and corruption while many workers are dying at construction sites.

The workers will no longer bear such practice but struggle against the Lee Myung Bak "government" pursuing only the policy for big businesses, they declared.

They called upon construction workers to actively join in the large-scale action launched by the Confederation to demand wage hike and total revision of the law on trade union, check the conclusion of FTA with the U.S. and smash the suppression of trade unions.

A resolution was read out at the rally.

At the end of the rally its participants took a demonstration.