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At the strike site in Geoje, there is a 1m wide and 1m steel structure.

There, I met a subcontractor who had already been locked up for 30 days.



[Choi-an Yoo / Vice President of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Subcontracting Branch: It hurts.

First of all, there is no joint pain.

I want to inform the Korean people about the miserable life of subcontractor workers in shipyards.

When the quantity is reduced, it cuts people like a knife.

That's why we've never enjoyed a boom.]



The working conditions of subcontractors in shipyards are no different from those inside narrow cages.

I listened closely to their stories.



By Park Chan-beom.



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Workers working in a shipyard hanging from a single rope.



When building a ship, we are installing a scaffolding that can stand on one's feet.



The monthly wages of these scaffolding workers who belong to a subcontractor are between 2 and 2.5 million won in real income.



Kwang-Hoon Lee, a footstool installation worker in his fifth year, says his hourly wage is 9,500 won, which is 340 won higher than this year's minimum hourly wage.


Enlarging an image

[Lee Kwang-hoon/Member of the Chosun subcontracting branch of the Gyeongnam branch of the Metal Workers' Union: We are called the Nobility Union, is this the salary of the Nobility Union?

Then, where should we lean?]



Even if you fall and injure your face while installing the scaffolding, you can't even dream of filing for an industrial accident because of unstable employment.



[Lee Kwang-hoon/Metallurgical Union Gyeongnam Branch Chosun Subcontracting Branch Member: Ignoring the doctor's recommendations, only listening to the volume team leader, (worker) was discharged and went to work the next day.

(Team leader) 'You only have to take a card to go to work and leave.']



They complain that industrial action such as a strike is difficult to get recognition for as justification.



It is said that the act of suspending work has no choice but to be done at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the workplace, but the original contractor, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, defines it as an illegal strike because it is not an employer of a subcontractor.



[Lee Yong-woo / Attorney (Vice Chairman of the Minbyun Labor Relations Commission): The International Labor Organization and international norms have repeatedly stated that the original agency also has the right to negotiate the actual working conditions, so it has an obligation to negotiate.

The Supreme Court has also clearly (and has made it clear) such a position.]



Today (21st), 53 civic groups published an urgent human rights report that investigated shipyard workers for the past two weeks, and said that the government should take a peaceful solution to this strike. urged.



(Video coverage: Jeong Kyung-moon, video editing: Won-yang, VJ: Kim Jong-gap)



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