Last week we launched the Samsung Accountability Campaign in Seoul, South Korea with a series of activities that called on Samsung to accept responsibility for the workplace cancers that have struck down more than 20 young workers.
People from more than 35 countries have now signed the petition. Please join them and circulate to all of your contacts and lists! Thanks.
http://www.petitiononline.com/s4m5ung/petition.html
You can see my photos from the week’s activities at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=1309114274&aid=2057934.
Samsung responded by calling out the riot police ( see the photos above)
See also http://www.csr-asia.com/weekly_detail.php?id=11961 for a good description:
Are Samsung workers dying from cancer in Korea?
by Stephen Frost sfrost@csr-asia.com
When Yumi Hwang died from leukaemia at the age of 22 it was assumed she was an unfortunate victim of naturally occurring abnormalities that often account for the disease. Her father, however, was not convinced. Sanggi Hwang’s search for the truth about his daughter’s death has convinced him that it was her job at a Samsung semiconductor factory that led to her untimely death on 6 March 2007. His fight for justice has subsequently enlisted the support of a new-formed coalition of NGOs calling on Samsung to accept responsibly for what Ted Smith (from the International Campaign for Responsible Technology in San Jose, California) calls “a serious blood cancer cluster” similar to that alleged in a court case brought against IBM in late 2003. (click on the link above for more details)
· A video of some of the Samsung victims and their families is available at: http://dotsub.com/view/6147f3b8-99fc-48c2-acbe-d95be38eddd1
· see http://www.ehjournal.net/content/5/1/30 -- “Mortality among US employees of a large computer manufacturing company: 1969–2001” – this study shows similar patterns of mortality to Samsung
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