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GLOBAL unions exposed Samsung’s union-busting yesterday as the South Korean electronics giant appointed its founder’s grandson to its board.
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) revealed details of a leaked PowerPoint presentation — intended for the eyes of corporate bosses only — decreeing specific “countermeasures” to be used to “dominate employees.”
The move by former vice-chairman Lee Jae Yong — chairman Lee Kun Hee’s only son — to a bigger role comes at a crucial time for South Korea’s most powerful “chaebol” or family-owned conglomerate.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
