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Samsung has just released a brand-new Smartphone, Galaxy Note 8, but how SMART is Samsung on labour rights?
Samsung employs more than 285,000 people and relies on 1.5 million supply chain workers making the latest smart phones and electronic components. However, this rapid rise to global dominance has come with serious consequences for the workers who produce these products, from union busting, poverty wages, unsafe work, to modern slavery.
We need your help! On the day of the release of Samsung's new phone, we want to send a clear message to the giant Tech Company, that labour force is not a commodity! Will you help us?
Write a message on Samsung's Facebook and Twitter page to end workers' abuses. You can copy & paste the messages below or send your own one.
@SamsungMobile 1.5mil of your supply chain workers face union busting, intimidation & death on the job. Unbox your potentials with the new #GalaxyNote8: PROTECT workers' rights, GUARANTEE a safe workplace, and ABOLISH your 'no-union' policy NOW! #DoWhatYouCant
Samsung's Twitter: @SamsungMobile
@SamsungMobile we want bigger things for the new #GalaxyNote8: end worker abuse & abolish your "no-union" policy NOW! #DoWhatYouCant
@SamsungMobile #Unbox your potentials with #GalaxyNote8: promote workers' rights, safe workplace, & #TradeUnion participation #DoWhatYouCant
When airlines banned the use of Samsung's Note 7 after its fire-prone batteries started to spontaneously combust, the public got a sense of the fear that Samsung supply chain workers face on a daily basis. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is portrayed to be better and do 'bigger things', but it does not promise to do the 'right thing' for its workers.
Samsung has a well‐documented history of exploiting its own workers, but the company continues to deny all responsibility. In South Korea, workers have been constantly exposed to hazardous chemicals, developing cancer and causing the death of 76 people. Likely, last July, the supporters for the Health and Rights of People in the Semiconductor Industry (SHARPS) has scored two legal wins by making Samsung Electronics accountable for those diseases and, hence, give compensation to some families[1].
Samsung has also been involved in bribery and corruption scandal and now prosecutors in South Korea are demanding a minimum a 12-year prison sentence for the acting head of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong[2]. We also demand that he takes responsibility for the workers in his supply chain.
By putting as much international pressure on Samsung as possible, we want to show the Giant Tech that we will no longer tolerate phones or electronics produced on exploitation.
Join us by sending a message to SAMSUNG to protect workers' rights, guarantee a safe workplace, and abolish its 'no-union' policy!
Thank you in advance for your support!
[1] https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/two-legal-wins-sharps-achieves-new-momentum/
