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call for global actions on Workers’ Memorial Day April 28″>“Enough is Enough” – Groups call for global actions on Workers’ Memorial Day April 28

Another cancer death at Samsung but Korean government arrests OHS
activists

On March 31, 2010, Park Ji-yeon — a young worker from Samsung’s
Onyang semiconductor factory — died of leukemia at age 23. Her tragic
death came less than one month after Samsung workers, their families,
and community supporters participated in the 1st Memorial Week of
occupational deaths of semiconductor workers to honor the memory of the
many other workers who gave their lives working at Samsung. There are
now 23 documented cases of Samsung workers who have suffered from blood
cancers like leukemia or lymphoma, and 9 workers among them have already
died. A petition to support the workers can be read and signed here: http://www.petitiononline.com/s4m5ung/petition-sign.html.

We express our deepest sympathies and condolences to the families of
all who lost their lives after working at Samsung. (Samsung is now one
of the world’s most powerful corporations — they enjoyed record sales of
$120.48 billion in 2009 , and now rank # 1 in flat screen TV sales and
#2 in mobile phone sales globally).

We collectively grieve this tragic and unnecessary loss of life and
express our outrage that occupational cancers are a growing health
crisis in the electronics industry. This problem is not confined to
Samsung or Korea. This is an industry-wide issue because the companies
create unsafe workplaces throughout the world, and unsafe conditions in
the communities in which they operate. A series of recent investigations
in the US, UK, Taiwan and elsewhere have highlighted an elevated cancer
risk in workers in the semiconductor industry (for more information,
see http://www.ehjournal.net/content/5/1/30
). For far too long, electronics industry executives have continued to
deny responsibility and have treated chemical exposure and the resulting
cancer deaths as simply the cost of doing business. We say “Enough
Is Enough!”

Instead of conducting a proper investigation of the occupational
nature of the deaths and adopting adequate prevention measures, the
Korean government supported Samsung and joined its efforts to silence
the growing evidence of a cancer cluster among electronics manufacturing
workers at Samsung in Korea who have been exposed to toxic
chemicals. On 2nd April there was a funeral ceremony for Park Ji-yeon,
followed by a press conference at Samsung headquarters in Seoul to
demand accountability from Samsung. The press conference was broken up
by the police who then arrested seven of the activists who then shouted
to Samsung “You are responsible for the death of Ji-Yeon Park.” They
were released 2 days later without charges.

We condemn these actions by Samsung and the Korean government and
demand that:

• Samsung acknowledge its responsibility for the cancer deaths of its
  workers;
• The Korean government enforce its laws against Samsung for its
  actions rather than punish its workers and their supporters.

We call on Myung-bak Lee, President of Korean Government; Gee-sung
Choi, CEO of Samsung Electronics; Tae-hee Yim, the Minister of Labor;
Won-bae Kim, the President of COMWEL, the Korea Workers’ Compensation
& Welfare Service; Min-ki Noh, CEO of KOSHA, – to do everything in
their power to end this nightmare and apologize for the callous
treatment of the courageous occupational health activists who have
brought these serious issues to the attention of concerned people
throughout the world.

We also call on our Brothers and Sisters throughout the world to take
actions to expose Samsung’s disregard for their workers’ health and the
Korean government’s complicity in this tragedy.

To learn more, see the video from Supporters of Health And Right of
People in Semiconductor Industry at:

http://dotsub.com/view/6147f3b8-99fc-48c2-acbe-d95be38eddd1

To add your organization to this list, please send your authorization
to tsmith@igc.org. Thanks!

Endorsed by: (list is in formation)

Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU)

Korean Metal Workers Union (KMWU)

Supporters of Health And Right of People in Semiconductor
industry (SHARPS)

Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC)

Asian Network for the Rights Of Occupational Accident
Victims (ANROAV)

Asian Transnational Corporation (ATNC) Monitoring Network

Action Committee for Reinstatement of Laid-off Samsung
Workers – Korea

All Together – Korea

Association of Victims of Occupational Injuries – Korea

APROMAC (Environment Protection Association) Brazil

Ban Toxics, Philippines

Bangladesh Metal Workers Federation 

Building and Wood Workers International (BWI)

Cancer Prevention Alliance – UK

Cancer Prevention Coalition

Chungnam Joint Committee about Leukemia in Samsung -Korea

Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO

Communities Against Toxics

Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group  (India)

Dasan Human Rights Center -Korea

Democratic Labor Party (Gyeonggi local)

Free Trade Zones & General Services Employees Union (
FTZ&GSEU )

Fronteras Comunes – Mexico

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)

GoodElectronics

Hazards Campaign – UK

Gyeonggi Informal Labor Center -Korea

Gyeonggi Law center of KCTU

Gyeonggi Local branch of KCTU

Health & Environment Alliance – EU

Hesperian Foundation – US

Inchon Association of Victims of Occupational Injuries –
Korea

International Metal Workers Federation (IMF)

International Campaign for Responsible Technology

International POPS Elimination Network

Japan Occupational Safety and Health Resource Center
(JOSHRC)

Korea Institute of Labor Safety and Health

Labour Watch Taiwan (LWT)

Malaysian Trades Union Congress

Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network (USA)

Maquila Solidarity Network (Canada)

National Association of Professors for Democratic Society –
Korea

National Toxics Network (Australia)

New Progressive Party (Gyeonggi local)

New Solutions

Occupational and Environmental Health Network of India
(OEHNI)

People’s Health Movement – USA

PHASE II (Scotland)

Preparatory Committee for Socialist Workers Party (Gyeonggi
local)

Scottish Hazards Campaign

Socialist Party (Gyeonggi local) -Korea

Solidarity for worker’s health – Korea

Taiwan Association for Victims of Occupational Injuries
(TAVOI)

The Solidarity for Healthy Labor World – Korea

TEAN (Taiwan)

TIE Asia

Tokyo Occupational Safety and Health Center (TOSHC)-
Japan

Toxics Link – India

TOXISPHERA (Health Environmental Association),  Brazil

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
(UE)

Wonjin Labor Safety and Health Education Center – Korea

Workers’ Assistance Center, Philippines

Worksafe (USA)