Samsung workers with cancer, their families and supporters have launched a new website to focus global attention on the growing occupational health crisis and Samsung’s refusal to accept responsibility. Their web site presents a compelling case for why those of us who depend on our cell phones, our TVs, our computers, and other high-tech things that now dominate our lives should care about the people – mostly young women – who make them.
Samsung workers with cancer, their families and supporters have launched a new website to focus global attention on the growing occupational health crisis and Samsung’s refusal to accept responsibility. Their web site presents a compelling case for why those of us who depend on our cell phones, our TVs, our computers, and other high-tech things that now dominate our lives should care about the people – mostly young women – who make them.
On March 31, 2010, Park Ji-yeon — a young worker from Samsung’s Onyang semiconductor factory — died of leukemia at age 23. Her tragic death came less than one month after Samsung workers, their families, and community supporters participated in the 1st Memorial Week of occupational deaths of semiconductor workers to honor the memory of the many other workers who gave their lives working at Samsung. There are now 23 documented cases of Samsung workers who have suffered from blood cancers like leukemia or lymphoma, and 9 workers among them have already died. A petition to support the workers can be read and signed here: www.petitiononline.com/s4m5ung/petition-sign.html.
