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After having worked 10 hours of her 12-hour graveyard shift, the young woman, who worked at a bread factory affiliated with the parent company of Paris Baguette, SPC, suffered a terrible accident and died after

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getting caught in a sauce mixing machine

at 6:15 am that day.

After the accident, the mother was angered by media reports describing her daughter as a young girl toiling away to earn money to support her family. This is because her daughter didn’t voluntarily choose to work the night shift.

“The company lacked workers and since my daughter worked well and was kind, I think the company pressured her into working the night shifts at first,” the mother said. “It was almost half-forced to make up for the [small] number of people [working at night].”

On Monday, two days after the accident, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions’ Korean Chemical Textile & Food Workers’ Union held a press conference. They exposed the factory’s lack of night shift workers, saying, “We have continuously demanded more workers be hired due to a lack of night shift personnel, but our calls went unheard.”

During the funeral, many company officials including Huh Young-in, chairman of SPC Group, visited the funeral home. But no one offered an explanation for why the deceased was killed working alone at the factory.

“Nobody explained to us why the machine had no safety equipment or why the working manual, which requires working in teams of two, was not adhered to. Is it so hard to install one safety device on a machine? How could they make workers use such machines unless they saw the employees themselves as machines?”

The young woman’s mother had no idea that there had been a similar accident a week ago and that there had been countless accidents before that as well.

Further info: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2022/10/281_338290.html

  • DankZedong A
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    121 year ago

    How could they make workers use such machines unless they saw the employees themselves as machines?

    Because they do. People are nothing but a resource to the capitalists.

  • @XiJinpingBurner
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    81 year ago

    Yeah but at least South Korea isn’t authoritarian amirite

  • deleted by creator
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    41 year ago

    I’ve personally known 2 people who’ve died in the same circumstances. all that is required to prevent it is a pressure bar around the mixing bowl, and yet this is not required by safety laws for some reason. rage.