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Recently, when cleaning workers at Yonsei University held a protest to improve working conditions, some students argued for their right to study and sued the workers.

For the past few days, similar protests have continued at various university workplaces, including cleaning workers at Korea University.



Reporter Park Se-won reported.



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It was the evening of the 6th that the cleaning workers of Korea University started a 24-hour sit-down.



[Can I name it as a prestigious university in Korea?]



They are demanding improvement in treatment such as an hourly wage increase of 400 won and expansion of shower facilities.



[Seo Jae-soon/President of the Seoul Branch of Public Transport Workers' Union: Korea University Branch: It's not that we ask for a lot of uploads.

The word is a guarantee of living wage, so I can't live with 1.86 million won (monthly).] This is



a shower room used by cleaning workers at Korea University.



There are two places where you can shower like this, and when you open this door in the back, you can see the sewage treatment plant.


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[Park Chan-soon / Korea University cleaning worker: Mosquitoes are huge, here.

This is a nice shower.

Smell I can't breathe because of the stench.]



Earlier, during the Yonsei University cleaners' protest, three students sued the workers for violating their right to study, causing controversy.



A professor criticized the students through the lesson plan, and there were posters everywhere expressing support for the cleaning workers.



Some students of Korea University are participating in the all-night siege for cleaning workers.



[Kim Tae-hyun / Korea University student: If we go out into society, we will work as a single worker, but I think that it is never desirable to show this kind of appearance at school…

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Cleaning workers from 10 universities, including Ewha Womans University and Sogang University, are also protesting to improve the rest area and provide a proper shower room.



The cleaning workers who work at universities are affiliated with service companies.



The workers criticized each other for delaying their responsibilities, although the contracting company and the university, the principal contractor, can improve working conditions only after consultation.



[Jae-soon Seo/President of Korea University Branch of Public Transport Union Seoul Branch: In the service company, we came in only to manage people, not to manage the building, so we have nothing to do with that (shower improvement), so we have to do it at school…

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There are also arguments that universities should directly hire cleaning workers.



[Ryu Ha-kyung/Minbyun Labor Relations Commission Lawyer: After removing the dispatch law, the law must be amended to prevent the hiring of non-regular workers for continuous and regular work, in the end.]



(Video coverage: Cho Chang-hyeon, Kim Yong-woo, video editing: Park Chun-bae)