Media workers begin fasting to agree to stop serious disaster laws



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Industrial accident families, such as Kim Mi-sook, President of the Kim Yong-gyun Foundation and Lee Yong-gwan, President of Hanbit Media Center for Labor Rights, continue the hunger strike for the 20th day, urging enactment of the Law promulgating the Law on corporate punishment for serious accidents. In response to the government’s withdrawal from the original plan, the hunger movement in harmony with work and civil society expanded, and media workers also entered the famine of 10,000.

29 executives, including the chairman of the press union Oh Jeong-hoon, the executive department and secretariat activists, the Buddhism broadcasting branch of the press union, the small book branch, the KBS Mediatech branch, the headquarters of MBC and the executive department of SBS headquarters urged that the corporate punishment law for severe disasters be enacted within the year with no rollback. He began fasting and syncing up daily.

President Oh said: “The mother of a worker, Kim Yong-gyun, the father of PD Lee Han-bit, has been fasting for the 20th day on a cold floor in hopes of enacting the law on corporate punishment for severe disasters. . In this situation, the party and the government are committed to preventing the severe disaster law reform that is currently being promoted, “he said.” Many executives from the union secretariat and the branch headquarters are joining the daily fasting ceremony today. “

Chang-Hyun Yoon, director of the media union’s SBS headquarters, said: “We are going through a concerted fast at the level of the Democratic Union and its affiliated media unions, but other than that, as an individual worker, I agree with anger at attempting to deal with the corporate punishment law for severe disasters. Parents who have lost their parents put down their songs for nearly 20 days and appealed for the bill’s passage.

▲ The Democratic Union, the national media union, the media union, the Buddhist Broadcasting Branch, the Small Book Branch, MBC Headquarters and SBS Headquarters, urged the 'enactment of the corporate punishment law for severe disasters within a year without setback, 'and began a one-day solidarity fast.  Photo = provided by the press union and SBS headquarters
▲ The Democratic Union, the national media union, the media union, the Buddhist Broadcasting Branch, the Small Book Branch, MBC Headquarters and SBS Headquarters, urged the ‘enactment of the corporate punishment law for severe disasters within a year without setback, ‘and they began a one-day solidarity fast. Photo = Union Press · SBS Headquarters

On the 29th, when the government presented a revised bill to the National Assembly for the Serious Accident Law, which was withdrawing from the original plan, such as expanding the scope of the punishment probation and reducing the level of punishment, it was it intensifies opposition from the labor community, family members of occupational accidents and civil society.

On the 29th, KCTU President-elect Yang Kyung-soo began fasting indefinitely, and 11 progressive citizens, workers and political parties also joined. Prior to this, the bereaved families of the late workers Kim Dong-jun, Kim Jae-soon, and Kim Tae-gyu, who died from industrial accidents, also began fasting. Officials at the headquarters of the movement to enact the law punishing families for work accidents and corporate punishment for serious disasters are pushing 2,400 times to push through the legislation.

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