The broadcasting said that dismissed workers of Ssangyong Motors are greeting the New Year while waging a sit-in strike on a high steel tower.

They have been on a sit-in strike for the 42 consecutive days despite cold on a 30-meter-high transmission tower with 154,000 voltage current flowing through wire, it noted, and went on:

Four dismissed workers of the motors died in 2012 and five workers and activists committed suicides or died all of a sudden a week after the "presidential" election.

It held that their simple desire for the reinstatement of the unreasonably dismissed workers should be realized.