It supports amending the law that was construed against the female telephone workers.
But Seoul subway and public telephone workers are not striking, as they did late last month.
There was a janitor, a farmer, a telephone worker and many others.
In all, more than 160,000 telephone workers faced the possibility of a strike.
The telephone workers, like most Americans, are covered by health insurance paid by their employers.
The rise would include about 76,000 striking telephone workers who returned to their jobs in September.
But the gain would have been 218,000 if not for labor disputes, particularly among telephone workers.
But only 142,000 jobs were created last month, and that figure reflected the return to work of 55,000 striking telephone workers.
Their exposure to electromagnetic fields is the highest among telephone workers.
And what is true for telephone workers goes for blue-collar workers in general.