27개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
This is S. Korean company "culture" at its best...
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☞ Venture firm chief under fire after footage of cruel acts goes viral (Yonhap, 10.31)
Y'day(10.21) afternoon in Incheon/Bupyeong: migrant workers, citizens and members of the Buddhist Jogye Order(resp. its Social Labour Committee) mourned...
...the recent death of a Burmese migrant worker, who fell head-first out of the window of a makeshift cafeteria that was eight meters above the ground at a construction site in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, Aug. 22, while running away from a sudden police raid. Another migrant worker who witnessed the fall said he was not able to land on his feet because an officer grabbed his legs before the jump. He died of brain damage 17 days later...
A few days ago(10.14) Korea Times published the following photo...
PS. Similar deaths have occurred in the past, mostly during sudden on-site police raids. Some 80 migrant workers have sustained injuries during these raids since 2008, according to the Ministry of Justice. Ten have died, most of them after falls..(source: K. Times)
Y'day(10.20) afternoon in central Seoul: Construction equipment operators, door-to-door delivery service workers, express delivery service workers, home visiting tutors, insurance sales persons, cargo truckers, chauffeur service drivers... 6000 workers in disguised employment relations gathered to urge the government to guarantee their fundamental labour rights, to ratify rapidly the ILO conventions on Freedom of Association and to revise the definition of "worker" under article 2 of TULRAA in inclusive way. (source: KCTU, 10.20/KCTU's report in Korean, incl. lots of pics, you'll get here)
At the same time about 3000 educators staged a protest rally nearby ChoengWaDae(the presidential office) and demanded - once again(!) - KTU's recognition as a LEGAL union...
Related reports in Korean:
☞ 법외노조 5년 앞둔 전교조, 전국교사결의대회 개최(교육의망, 10.20)
☞ 전교조 “법외노조 취소, 정부가 결단하라” 청와대 앞 대규모 집회 (민중의소리, 10.20)
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