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A group of women who assemble radios for Sirius in Seoul, South Korea, organized a union three years ago after the company made the women work 13-hour days, six to seven days a week. Pay was only $3.62 an hour in the capital city, where the cost of living is similar to that of New York.
Their bosses at the Kiryung Electronics Factory responded by firing the union organizers and threatening to fire anyone who had worked at the factory less than a year. That was most of them. Only 10 of 250 assembly-line workers were permanent. The rest were “dispatch” workers whose jobs are more precarious than those of their U.S. counterparts.
This is another case of a corporation in Sirius Satellite Radio not taking responsibility for the plants where their products are assembled. What is being practiced at Kiryung is the treating of human beings as disposable things. They hire people as temp workers and hire married women on three-month contracts so they can be fired if they become pregnant. They even fired people via text message.
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