On October 15, 2022, a young worker from the Korean fast food company "Paris
Baguette" died at her workplace in Pyeongtaek, 65 kilometers south of Seoul. Theyoung woman was grabbed by a giant blender in which she was pouring ingredients.To save time during the work, it seems that the management had removed the safetyprotections... The body of the victim was not found until the next morning, whenthe colleagues took him out of the machine. After which the management gave themthe order to get back to work. Height of contempt, the owner of the company sentto the funeral of the young woman as a funeral wreath... a box filled with rolls!This fatal accident occurred almost 30 years to the day after that of MarkHopkins, who was electrocuted on October 12, 1992 in the McDonald's restaurant inManchester. There too, the safety rules were not respected, for financialreasons. The global emotion aroused by his death had sparked the organization ofthe week of solidarity with fast food workers for several years. Since then,accidents, sometimes fatal, have followed one another regularly, in industrialbakeries as well as artisanal bakeries, the latest having occurred on September22 in a family bakery in Meru in Île-de-France.These real workplace killings don't make the headlines, they don't spark massiveoutrage on social media, no hot writer will write a book to expose them, therewon't be late night collages about walls to count injuries and deaths at work.Because at work, we die in the general indifference of society, which is moved byanimal welfare, but does not want to know in what conditions the human animalsthat produce its food are treated.These accidents show that the State and the Law are useless and do not protectus: all the industrial countries (in Korea as in France) have many laws whichhave been voted by deputies from both right and left, and which in theory obligethe bosses to ensure the safety of the workers. In France, the first officialState service to control that the bosses respect their obligations is evenexactly 130 years old, it was created by the law of November 2, 1892. But everyday workers die at work (318 to November 30 2022), which shows that neither lawsnor the state are of any use in protecting us against the voracious appetite forprofit of the bosses.If the workers want to ensure their safety, they can only count on themselves, byorganizing themselves collectively and autonomously, without owing anything tothe boss or the state. Against the use of dangerous machines or to demandprotective equipment or training in prevention, direct collective action, inparticular strikes or even the slowing down of production rates, remain the bestweapons at our disposal.ACCIDENTS AT WORK = EMPLOYEE TERRORISMWhat happened to this young worker can happen to us tomorrow, because we aresubjected to the same working conditions under the pressure of profitability atall costs. The death of this worker in Korea should not be added to the long listof deaths forgotten by corporate terrorism. This is why we join the worldwideboycott movement initiated by the Korean public and the workers of this countryagainst #Paris Baguette and the parent company #SPC, until serious securitymeasures are put in place. .http://cntaittoulouse.lautre.net/spip.php?article1289_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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