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Calling on Samsung to Accept Responsibility for Occupational Deaths |
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
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Petition Calling on Samsung to Accept Responsibility for Occupational Deaths and to Provide Safe and Decent Working Conditions
The families and friends of electronics manufacturing workers at Samsung in Korea have discovered a cancer cluster among young workers exposed to toxic chemicals. The pattern of cancer deaths bears a striking resemblance to the pattern of cancer deaths among IBM “chip” workers in the US* and to other electronics cancer clusters around the world. March 6th is the third anniversary of the death of Yu-mi Hwang, a Samsung semiconductor factory worker, who died from leukemia at age 22. Her death – and similar coworker deaths - has motivated people to demand that Samsung:
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Bhopal: 25 years of injustice |
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 |
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The Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational Accident Victims (ANROAV) have place the Justice for Bhopal as one of its major campaigns. The Network continues to work and build stronger solidarity with various grassroots organization working on the same issue. A small contingent of members of the network – Hong Kong, Indonesia and the Philippines - went to Bhopal this year to show solidarity, along with other activists from around the world. |
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Support our brothers and sisters from Ssangyong Motors in Korea |
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 |
For 2 months now, our brothers and sisters from Ssangyong Motors have occupied the factory located in Pyeongtaek, Korea to protest the major restructuring plan that calls for the shedding of 2,646 workers, or 36 percent of the work force. Some 1,670 have left the company voluntarily but more workers are expecting to be laid off.
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