*vote against: 반대투표하다
*Strip sth from: 없애다. 벗기다. 박탈하다

(2) The labor ministry has given the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union, or KTU, an ultimatum that it will deregister the union, thus making it unlawful, unless it amends its constitution by Oct. 23 to ban dismissed and retired teachers from being members.

* the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union: 전국교직원노동조합 
*give an ultimatum: 최후통첩을 하다.
*deregister: 등록을 취소하다.
*amend: 고치다
*constitution: 헌법, 규정

(3) The progressive union, however, announced Saturday that it will not comply with the ministry after the members voted down changing its rule.

*comply with: 따르다. 지키다. 준수하다.
*vote down: 부결하다. 거부하다

(4) Under the current labor law, only employees of a workplace are qualified to become union members. But the KTU’s constitution allows 22 dismissed workers to remain members.

*Be qualified to: ~자격이 주어지다.

(5) Last week, the union asked the members to cast votes on whether it should revise its bylaws, which illegally recognize fired educational workers as members.

*cast vote: 투표를 하다 
*bylaws: 조합 단체 등의 규칙, 규약

(6) More than 80 percent or 59,828 members participated in the vote, with 68.5 percent voting against the change of rule and 28 percent voting in favor, the KTU said.

*vote in favor:  찬성투표하다

(7) The loss of its legal status as a labor union will bring immediate, adverse effects, observers say.

*immediate, adverse effects: 즉각적인 역효과

(8) It would mean that it could no longer engage in legitimate negotiations with schools, nor be eligible to receive financial support and various benefits from the regional education offices. 

*engage in: 관여하다 참여하다
*engage with: ~와 맞물리게 하다
(ex: engage with the enemy: 적과 교전하다)

(9) For instance, the Ministry of Education currently provides the union with 5.2 billion won ($4.9 million) to subsidize rent.

*the Ministry of Education: 교육부
*subsidize: 보조금을 주다

(10) Also, teachers who currently work full-time for the union will have to return to their schools, which may result in an acceleration of members leaving the union, experts say.

*acceleration: 가속화

(11) Meanwhile, some 6,000 teachers and civic activists gathered in Seoul on Saturday to protest the government’s treatment of the union.

*civic activist; 시민 활동가
*treatment: 치료, 대하는 법, 조치

(12) The KTU claimed that the government’s threat to demobilize the union will actually strengthen their unity.

*demobilize: 해산하다.

(13) “After the vote, we are more determined to protest (against the government). I believe no teacher will leave the union even if we lose our status,” said Ha Byeong-soo, a spokesman of the KTU. 

*be determined to: 단단히 결심하다 확고하다.

(14) He noted that the union is now working with other labor unions in Korea and several international organizations, including the International Labor Organization, to protest against the government’s decision.

*International Labor Organization: 국제노동기구 

기사전문: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20131020000244

팟캐스트: https://itunes.apple.com/kr/podcast/koliaheleoldeu-paskaeseuteu/id686406253?mt=2