In order to pass the Severe Accident Corporate Punishment Act within the year, which strengthens the responsibilities of industrial accidents, the family members of the industrial accident victims who are fasting for the 17th have appealed to the Democratic Party and the people for a prompt resolution of the bill. From the 28th, one day before the National Assembly’s Legislative Judicial Committee, another three family members from industrial accidents will join the fast.
The Headquarters for Enactment of the Corporate Punishment Act for Severe Accidents held a press conference in front of the National Assembly at 2 pm on the 27th and held a press conference in front of the National Assembly, “2,400 workers and citizens who died yesterday and today are watching the National Assembly with their eyes open.” I will not take a step here until the corporate punishment law is enacted.”
There are currently five hunger strikers in front of the National Assembly. Taean Thermal Power Plant Industrial Accident Deaths The late Kim Yong-gyun mother, Kim Mi-sook, Kim Yong-gyun Foundation chairman, the late Lee Han-bit, the late CJENM PD father Lee Yong-gwan, the president of the Hanbit Media Labor Rights Center, Justice Party Representative Kang Eun-mi, and Lee Sang-jin, the co-chair of the movement headquarters, have been fasting for the 17th day from the 11th. Outside the main gate of the National Assembly, the singles of the deputy driving union chairman Kim Joo-hwan entered the 21st.
The prolonged fasting led to a red light on the health of the farmers. Lee Tae-eui, vice chairman of the public transport union, who had been fasting since the 7th, was urgently evacuated to the hospital on the 26th as his illness worsened. Chairman Lee Sang-jin said, “I was hiding my chronic disease, but yesterday my condition became dangerous, so I was forced to evacuate,” and said, “It is so terrible and heartache.”
Chairman Mi-sook Kim said in an interview, “More than six people die every day, and more than six families go to hell every day. When I think of them who will be in pain like me, I get tired of blood day by day with impatience,” he said. “Seeing the leisurely National Assembly on Christmas is terrible. Although the end of the year is near, no matter what the opposition party is, there are no desperate politicians like us.”
Chairman Kim criticized the power of the ruling ruling party, the Democratic Party, and the people of the 1st opposition party. “If the opposition party does not appear in the discussions on the judiciary committee, the Democratic Party asks that the ruling party handle it alone,” he said. “Isn’t the law that saves people’s lives a priority over any other law?” “If the Democratic Party comes up with a single proposal saying that it will not come into discussion, it will come in,” said the people’s strength. He criticized him, saying, “Please be sincerely engaged in discussion right away.”
Chairman Lee Yong-gwan was thirsty after asking, “Are you having a happy holiday with your family members?” He continued, “We, who lost their children while you were having a comfortable holiday with your family, are enduring the hunger and cold in the homeless farmhouse in front of the Parliament Building.
Chairman Lee said, “We cannot die leaving the world that killed Hanbit. Hundreds of thousands of people who died in the workplace and disasters couldn’t die without leaving the dead,” he said. “If I need my life to make a severe disaster corporate punishment law, I’ll give it as much as I can.”
He then mentioned what Pope Francesco said to the bereaved families of the Sewol ferry tragedy, who were accused of’political bias’ in some cases in 2014. “The Pope said,’There is no neutrality in pain.’ There is no neutrality between life and corporate profits,” he said. “But why are political leaders just looking at the business world and neglecting the procession of death that continues yesterday and today?”
From the 28th, three bereaved families of industrial accidents will join the hunger strike. The late Jae-soon Kim, who died from being sucked into a crusher at a factory in the Hanam Industrial Complex in Gwangju, the late Kim Sun-yang, the father of Kim Seon-yang, the late Dong-jun Kim’s mother, Kang Seok-gyeong, and a young worker who died at a construction site in Suwon. Kim Tae-gyu’s older sister, Kim Do-hyun.
In addition, three representatives of civil society, such as Tae-yeon Kim, CEO of the Social Transformation Workers Party, Hyunrin Hyun-rin of the Labor Party, and Jin-sook Lee, chairman of the Chungcheongnam-do Human Rights Committee, participate in the hunger campaign on the same day. These six people continue to fast until the severe disaster corporate punishment law is passed.
On the 29th, the National Assembly Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold the second legislative review first subcommittee and continue the examination of the severe disaster corporate punishment law. The judiciary committee opened a so-called committee on the 24th and began examining the bill. In addition, the Democratic Party judged it alone. When the Democratic Party notified the opposition party of the so-called convocation due to a failure to discuss the agenda, it boycotted the meeting, claiming that the people’s power was unilateral.
The movement headquarters said on the 27th, “The participation of the people on the 29th is also uncertain. At the front, it promises bipartisan cooperation, and in fact, it strongly condemns the power of the people who are only trying to find excuses while looking at companies. In addition, the Democratic Party deliberated and passed the Airlift Act (High-Level Public Officials Crime Investigation Act) alone. Where is the momentum you were asking? The Democratic Party insisted on enacting a proper law for punishment of companies in serious disasters and passing it to the plenary session before the end of this year.”
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