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The case of unfair personnel appointments is not unique to this site.



Due to the nature of the local Agricultural Cooperatives, similar things are easy to happen and it is difficult to report, but reporter Kim Bo-mi covered the details.



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Two years ago, Mr. C was fired from a local agricultural cooperative in Gyeongnam, where he had worked for 30 years.



At that time, the union president and other executives forced the employees to sign a memorandum that they would not receive overtime pay in relation to the issue of unpaid wages.



[Mr. C: When I made a suggestion, I didn’t have the qualifications to be in charge, and I was reprimanded for not being able to do that, what kind of deputy general secretary would I do?]



However, the other employees watched the executives and signed all of them. became a person



[C: The executive director is a senior in middle school, and Si-suk's friend and husband's senior are tied together like this, so even if you swear like that, you can't say 'Why are you cursing me?'

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After this incident, Mr. C did not even get approval for sick leave due to a chronic illness, and was fired for reasons such as absenteeism.



[C: I just worked hard on my work and benchmarked the work of the Agricultural Cooperatives, which live well in the urban Agricultural Cooperatives.

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There are 968 Agricultural Cooperatives nationwide, with an average number of 61 people in each cooperative.



The scale itself is not large, and most of them are entangled with local seniors and juniors, and there are constant criticisms that it is difficult to raise a problem even if something unfair occurs.



The strong authority of the union president, who holds both personnel and management rights, is cited as the cause.



[Seo Pil-sang / Former Chairman of the National Agricultural Cooperative Union: In fact, it is a non-negotiable authority.

There is no control or control over this.

Naturally, in the local area, the nature of the local Agricultural Cooperatives is greatly influenced by the relationship between blood ties and academic ties.]



It is pointed out that although there are grievance handling organizations for each regional union, they are not well-known due to the possibility of identity exposure.



Over the past five years since 2017, the number of reports of violations of the Labor Standards Act has reached 120 at local agricultural cooperatives across the country.



Of these, there are 5 cases of workplace bullying, and the industry argues that it will actually cause more harm than this.



It seems necessary to prepare countermeasures at the Agricultural Cooperative Federation level for local Agricultural Cooperatives that are in the blind spot of monitoring.



(Video coverage: Hyung Yoon, video editing: Jun-hee Kim, material provided by: Mi-hyang Yoon)