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A GLOBAL labour grouping exposed “medieval conditions” at South Korean transnational Samsung in a report published yesterday.
International Trade Union Confederation general secretary Sharan Burrow accused Samsung of a litany of abuses “from denying justice to the families of former employees who died from cancers caused by unsafe workplaces to dodging tax and engaging in price-fixing cartels.
“One thing is constant: Samsung’s corporate culture is ruthlessly geared towards maximising profit to the detriment of the everyday lives of its workers,” she said.
US General Stanley McChrystal has been invited to advise on creating a ‘team of teams’ for healthcare transformation. His credentials? He previously ran interrogation bases where Iraqis were stripped naked and beaten, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
