[스트레이트 예고] ‘Coupang Logistics Center’ where 5 workers died in the last 8 months

Daily and contract workers in Coupang suffering extreme labor day and night for rocket delivery and early morning delivery

Last Lunar New Year holiday’Coupang’ announced that it is promoting listing on the New York Stock Exchange. As the corporate value was estimated to reach 55 trillion won, the attention of domestic and foreign media and investors was poured. Coupang announced its unprecedented plan to distribute 100 billion won worth of stocks to employees, including daily workers, highlighting its status as a’excellent innovative company’.

However, the thoughts of the workers in Coupang that MBC Straight Team met were different. In the midsummer and midwinter, it was fundamental to suffer from hard work in a poor environment without a single air conditioner, and you need to see or get permission to even go to the bathroom, and to inhumanly monitor and urge workers’ workload with UPH terminals. It was everyday.

Deok-jun Jang, the late victim of industrial accident at Coupang Distribution Center, “We were slaves to Coupang”

In October of last year, 28-year-old Jang Deok-jun, who had been working at dawn for one year and four months as a daily worker in Coupang, died. The cause of death is myocardial infarction. According to the Korea Labor Welfare Corporation survey, he worked an average of 58 hours per week and 62 hours before his death, and it was suspected of’muscle fusion’, which destroys muscles due to heavy work.

Coupang, who strongly refuted Jang’s death and that the work of the distribution center was irrelevant, apologized to the bereaved only after the results of industrial accidents of the Labor Welfare Corporation came out. Even with the deaths of the remaining four people who have not yet been recognized as industrial accidents, Coupang is still denying the possibility of industrial accidents, saying that it is a’outrageous claim’.

70% of daily workers, 119 ambulances dispatched to the Coupang distribution center once every five days

Due to the fact that there is no labor law regulation on night work or hourly workload, Coupang is currently legally abused workers. Only in Deokpyeong, Dongtan, Incheon, and Chilgok distribution centers, 119 ambulances have been dispatched 77 times in the past year. One emergency patient occurred every five days.

However, the Minister of Employment and Labor said, “Because there is no regulation on the amount of work per hour, the Labor Standards Act cannot be applied.” The daily workers at the Coupang Logistics Center now have nowhere to complain about their suffering.