Ongelooflike skokkende storie uit Suid-Korea. Labour Start writes: This sounds more like a horror movie than one of our usual campaigns on LabourStart. But its all true. A few days ago, a leader of a new union at Samsung in South Korea named YEOM, Ho-seok took his own life to protest the vicious anti-union policies of the company. At his funeral, 300 police stormed in, arrested 25 mourners and absconded with his body. Thats right: the police took away Yeoms body. The police apparently cremated the body against Yeoms dying wishes, and have meanwhile jailed two other leaders of the Samsung workers union who dared to protest the raid on the funeral. All this takes place against the background of the attempts by workers at electronics giant Samsung to organize a union. The workers have been on indefinite strike. Samsung workers have the right to a trade union. Their union, the Korean Metal Workers Union, has launched a big campaign online demanding that the Korean president intervene to release the prisoners, end anti-union repression at Samsung, and launch an independent investigation of the police raid and body-snatching. I hope that I can count on your support. Please click here to send your message: labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=2316
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 17:07:56 +0000
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