LG side, cleaning workers to place other buildings? “The obvious attempt to destroy the union”

On the 6th, cleaning workers who have been working for the 20th day at LG Twin Tower, demanding the withdrawal of group dismissal, sued S&I Corporation (S&I) and Jisoo I&C to the Seoul Southern Branch Office of the Ministry of Employment and Labor on charges of unfair labor practices. ‘Unfair labor practices’ refers to actions that a company gives disadvantage to workers or interferes with union activities for union activities.

The Seoul branch of the public transport union, which LG Twin Tower cleaning workers joined, held a press conference in front of the LG Twin Tower on the same day and said, “When a new service company enters the workplace, hiring existing personnel is the standard procedure in the cleaning service industry. After creating the union, he changed the service company and tried to dismiss it. “On the last 5th, Jisoo, an employer, expressed his intention to decentralize and isolate cleaning workers who joined the union, saying that they would deploy cleaning workers to other sites.” Revealed.

The Seoul branch said, “The LG Group should stop the act of destroying the union and let the LG Twin Tower cleaners work where they used to work,” said the Ministry of Employment and Labor, saying, “The LG Group’s unfair labor practices should be investigated quickly and strictly.” He urged.

S&I (a wholly-owned subsidiary of LG Co., Ltd., a holding company of LG Group), in charge of LG Twin Tower building management, has changed a cleaning service company in 10 years this year. Previously, the LG Twin Tower cleaning service was handled by index, which was owned by 50% of the two aunts of LG Group Chairman Gu Kwang-mo, Gu Mi-jeong and Gu Ho-mi. Jisoo is still in charge of facility services for LG Twin Tower.

S&I’s newly-selected service provider, Baeksang, refused to take over the employment of all cleaning workers who worked at LG Twin Tower. Baeksang Enterprises is a company that did a similar job in 2011 when Hongik University mass-dismissed cleaning and security workers for changing service companies.

Regarding the above process, S&I cited “dissatisfaction with customers (LG Group headquarters and subsidiaries) that have been raised since the beginning of last year” as the reason for the change of service company, and stated that it is “unrelated to union formation”. I’m taking it.

On the other hand, the Seoul branch argues that the establishment of a cleaning worker union in October last year was the main reason for the change of service company and the resulting’collective dismissal’. In fact, the time when S&I said that “a complaint was filed from a customer company” was after the formation of the union. In the meantime, there was no change in the cleaning method or the personal composition of cleaning workers.

After the’group dismissal’, cleaning workers began to protest and social interest in it increased.At a mediation meeting held at the Seoul Southern District Office of the Ministry of Employment and Labor on the 5th, S&I hired a cleaning worker who worked at the LG Twin Tower but placed it in another building. ‘Conveyed Jisoo’s position to the Seoul branch.

Ryu Han-seung, head of the Seoul branch of the Public Transport Union, said, “Among the many cleaning workers who go to work in Yeouido, where LG Twin Tower is located, no one would say that working in a building other than the one where they work is the succession of employment.” Distributed deployment is an idea that can only come from the idea of ​​getting rid of unions by isolating workers.”

Kim Hyung-gyu, a lawyer at the Public Transport Union Court, who acted on the case of unfair labor practices, said, “LG Group did not seem to have any intention of acknowledging the union in the first place.” Emphasized.

Ryu Ha-gyeong of the Labor Committee at the’Lawyers’ Meeting for Democratic Society’ said, “Even in a situation where LG’s reputation is being deteriorated and the attention of the press, LG is promoting elderly female workers on the street. I have a strong suspicion that there is a breath of LG beyond children,” he said. “I hope that LG recognizes the union of cleaning workers and resolves this situation well before executives are arrested for unfair labor practices like Samsung.” Said.