# 221
The Legend of Return
Chapter 221. Abuse of rights (2)
“Are you okay, branch president? Cho’s forehead is torn…”
“It’s okay. They blocked the conversation. Why stop saying we want to see a representative? the company is It’s a collective business built with the blood and sweat of workers like us. what are we guilty of? If it was sold to foreign guys for running the business like crap, we should be compensated as well. Is the loss our fault? It’s the workers who bleed, you bastards!”
Han Yang-dong, the head of the Ahnah Chemical Yeosu Plant union branch, spoke passionately to the general manager union member.
Originally, he had a strong temperament, but he was suppressed by the ruthlessness of Oh Seung-hyuk, the chairman of Ahn, and he was silent.
Oh Seung-hyeok came out strongly to the union, but the treatment was not bad.
Anah Chemical was in the leading group in terms of annual salary in petrochemicals.
But this time, the money greed turned properly.
A month ago, I joined the Chemical and Petroleum Federation of the Korean Federation of Trade Unions.
Union members were reluctant to participate because the Federation of Korean Trade Unions was too strong, but Hanyang-dong persuaded them.
Foreign-affiliated companies said they would raise money if they went on strike.
They also mixed lies, saying that money dealers with a lot of money took over the company.
In the election for the head of the union branch, he made a ridiculous election promise.
They demanded a 65-year-old retirement age guarantee, a bonus of 30 million won for a company that was in the red this year, compensation for the acquisition of a foreign company, and 3,000 shares for participation in management.
In addition, the priority was to hire full-time jobs for their children, pay 300 percent of summer vacation expenses, and increase their annual salary by more than 10 percent.
The leaders of the Chemical and Petroleum Federation said, “It is okay to accept that much.”
They were instigated to show the foreign capital a lesson.
At first, Hanyang-dong hesitated.
Few companies have converted non-regular workers to regular workers these days.
However, without notice, the person who became the new chairman boldly pushed forward.
It was good at first.
It was not bad for the associates who worked on the same production line to be promoted to full-time positions.
However, non-regular workers who had been converted to regular workers were reluctant to join the labor union.
At the same time, the company demanded a 50 percent cut in summer vacation costs and a salary increase linked to inflation.
Full-time union members stood up.
I thought the money of about 2 million won was more important than my colleagues who had become full-time workers.
Existing union members voted to elect the radical Hanyang-dong as the branch president.
Hanyang-dong, who graduated from a technical high school and had a complex about his academic background and dissatisfaction with society, pushed Hatu hard as soon as he was elected.
It was a preemptive strike against the newly elected executives.
‘Huh. Are you tired of not throwing a few in moderation? Let’s get some pocket money.’
Hanyang-dong knew that the company was in the red due to rapid oil price fluctuations, but Hanyang-dong did not care at all.
The Korean Federation of Trade Unions told us that it is not at the level of falling into court receivership.
Anah Chemical was also encouraged to become a leading leader in the chemical petroleum industry.
Encouraged to the fullest, Hanyang-dong declared the breakdown of negotiations through a vote for and against, and immediately went into industrial action called a strike.
Due to the nature of the chemical industry, when a strike occurs, the loss grows like a snowball.
It took about a month of cleaning and safety testing to get the factory machinery back into operation.
For that reason, the chemical side did not stop the operation of the machinery even when there was a strike.
But this time it was different.
As soon as they went on strike, the machine stopped running.
The representative office of An-A Chemical located in Ulsan was occupied by force.
The Korean Federation of Trade Unions promised to provide sufficient support.
“The ramen is all over.”
I boiled and ate the ramen prepared by the representative office.
About 30 union members used the representative office as a private space.
It was common to spend time sprawled out on tables and sofas in work boots.
He also practiced putting with the president’s golf club.
She wore a red headband and wore the representative’s items as if they were her own.
They also opened computers containing company secrets and searched for sensitive data.
“Comrades! Let’s suffer for a few days. It doesn’t make sense for us to live like beggars when the representative bastards live so luxuriously on the blood of our workers! We are no different from them! Comrades, let’s cheer up and fight! The highlands are not far! Let’s take a lot of pocket money and go on a nice overseas trip with our family!”
“Waaaaaaaa! It’s good that our branch president is hot!”
“We only trust the branch president!”
“I’ll make ramen. Let’s eat!”
Hanyang-dong smiled at the strong response from the strong union members.
I couldn’t get everything from the company, but I was thinking of getting a bonus of tens of millions of won in moderation.
‘Yes, the struggle is for this taste! The former union officers were too weak. Are we beggars? If you work the same, you should get the same money!’
Hanyang-dong was proud.
It was the first time in my life that I had such a feeling.
After being discharged, I hugged her with the help of a relative while playing. The past, when she joined Chemical, has long been forgotten.
‘If I get the money, I’ll buy another apartment. Rumors spread that the house price was worth shit~ hehehe.’
It was a happy Hanyang-dong just thinking about it.
He grabbed the bowl of ramen assigned to him and picked up chopsticks.
With instant rice and kimchi, I was able to last about 15 days.
Eh ah ah ah ah ah ah.
Suddenly, a loud siren sounded from loudspeakers.
“Squatters, raise your hands and come out immediately! Now, all of you have committed crimes including obstruction of business, illegal labor activities, and damage to property!”
“What what!!!”
Surprised union members hurriedly threw bowls of ramen and rushed to the window.
“Huh!”
“This is…”
Outside the window, several companies of fully armed riot police completely surrounded the headquarters.
‘Ugh! What is so fast!!!’
Usually, the order was to send a few more executives from the company and then negotiate.
The public power was not immediately put in after checking the representative office.
Unions have become more rigid over the past decade.
They fought for their own interests, not for the right to live.
Hanyang-dong was taken aback by the unexpectedly quick police intervention.
“Branch president…”
“Wait a minute! We have comrades to help us!”
Hanyang-dong took out his cell phone.
Then, I entered the representative’s private bathroom and dialed the number.
“This is Hanyang-dong, Chairman Kang Joo-hee of the Policy Committee, and the president of the Anah Chemicals branch. Public power has now been put in. What should I do now?”
[Struggle. The stronger the enemy, the stronger you must go! It is not easy to get the capitalists to pay for our bloody labor! The branch president and comrades must become martyrs! Block the entrance to the representative office and make a Molotov cocktail with the prepared gasoline!]
“……”
Hanyang-dong was speechless at the powerful spell.
Ahnah Chemical is better than other companies.
Suddenly, the faces of his wife and children, who had been holding him back at home, came to mind.
“I will come to help soon! And the branch president, please finish this job well. Federation officers are praising the branch president! You can even become an executive member of the federation!”
Hanyang-dong’s eyes became intense again at the word ‘executive member’.
A tremendous courage that I have never experienced in my life.
Hanyang-dong’s ambition was ignited.
“All right! I will fight for the right even more fiercely!!!”
***
“I fell for Kang Joo-hee again… Tsk tsk.”
“Who is Kang Joo-hee?”
“He is a policy chairman and a high-ranking official of the Federation of Korean Trade Unions. As for the company, how about managing director? Jang’s representative school department senior and my junior.”
“yes? Are you a law senior?”
He ordered CEO Ha Kwan-woo to take a strong response.
And immediately called the lawyer.
Attorney Cho, his face tanned from vacation, handed out thick documents.
“Kang Joo-hee is a nine-tailed fox. He has a pretty face and was good to seniors and juniors. I passed the bar exam several times in the first round… but failed in the second and third rounds.”
“why?”
“My father defected to North Korea.”
“Ah…”
There is no guilt-by-association system at this time, but it did exist in the days of Attorney Cho.
If you are caught in a background check, you will be excluded from public service as well as public notice.
In the case of private companies, such as large corporations, it was impossible to join the company.
“He was a rare talent. Then I jumped into the labor field. At the time, the working environment was poor, so many martyrs were produced. Thanks to that, workers were able to find their rights from malicious companies. But now… it has become a job.”
“A job?”
It’s full of unknowns.
Labor unions were organizations that were not transparently known to the general public.
“Big union confederations, including the Korea Federation of Trade Unions, collect dues from their union groups and union members. The money covers strike costs and even pays for attorney fees.”
After listening to it, I definitely understood.
It means organizing an organization and collecting dues from members to solve their livelihood.
“You’re not going on strike to collect more dues, are you?”
“You know, why do you ask? With democratization, workers’ authority improved a lot. Even without a strike, companies took care of themselves. The owners also hurt and ate a lot. But… These days, it’s getting too far. This will end when it is out of the eyes of the people. You should eat in moderation.”
Attorney Joe shook his head.
Even though he is from the upper class of society, Attorney Cho is an awake person.
If such a person shakes his head, it means that the problem is serious.
“If I do something wrong, I will be noisy.”
“Is it a problem to follow the law?”
“I heard that Kang Joo-hee is good at bewitching people. I don’t even get married and live there… If I get caught, I go to the seniors and juniors I had a relationship with in the past and lobby. It’s because CEO Jang doesn’t know… She’s really good at bewitching men. My seniors and juniors couldn’t forget the past and let me go a few times.”
It is embarrassing that the relationship with the Department of Law at Korea University is being abused like this.
“I am not going to back down. I never thought of such a request. The company is in the red, but it’s a bonus. And what about the stock? They are not people with common sense. I understand until the retirement age guarantee. But what about the guarantee of a full-time job for your children? These are ridiculous conditions.”
“Hehe. that’s right. However, the Chemical and Petroleum Federation is a nobleman. If you go into the metal union, it’s very bloody. They shut down factories and make homemade guns.”
“…..Is that true? What if the riot police are hurt? Surely their own children could be in the foreground as well.”
“So that’s a problem. High-ranking officials and ordinary policemen only give orders behind the scenes. But these ignorant guys stab the kids with bamboo spears and shoot them with iron guns. In this day and age, everything is done according to the law, but I don’t know why it comes out so violently that there is so much resentment. It’s been a while since labor laws have changed to the disadvantage of management.”
Anger arose again.
If it was common sense, I would tolerate it to some extent, but this was the height of ignorance.
“Crucially, there are many preferential benefits when you become the head of a union branch or an executive. Full-time union officials receive a salary from the company and only do union work. This is a secretly sucking job.”
I know the rules for full-time union officials.
From 2010, it will change to no wages, but until then, the predecessors only studied union rights while receiving salaries from the company.
It’s one of those bad habits.
“The company lost more than 100 billion won. Due to the chemical mechanical process, it is said that it will need to be repaired and tested for more than a month before it can be restarted. I don’t quite understand. Is it something to ask for while kicking their own rice bowls? It is not that we intend to close the company, nor that we intend to increase the number of non-regular workers.”
“We don’t trust each other. To be honest, the owner and management of the company are incompetent, but what can you do? That’s what capitalism is all about. But what is the point of recklessly injecting taxes to save them? After the IMF, public funds were injected, so only the owners were full. Workers deserve to be pissed off, but they shouldn’t be demanding too much. This hug chemical is a typical abuse of workers’ rights. There was also a lack of a legitimate strike order.”
This is not an abuse of rights, this is suicide.
Since I had experienced a bottom-line irregular job, I planned to return about 30% of the company’s net profit as bonuses and various welfare benefits.
One of the things I thought about was the provision of a company housing and an interest-free charter loan.
However, he kicked his stomach.
If this is such a ruthless demand, it is better for them to run the company with their own money.
Although it is said that labor-management relations have collapsed, common sense should not have collapsed.
The anger did not subside.
“Proceed immediately to a civil lawsuit and seize the tortfeasor’s property.”
no forgiveness
“Isn’t that too strong?”
“As the lawyer said, it is an obvious abuse of rights! Those who do not know the pain of others must suffer it themselves. It is a legitimate act of remedies for other employees and corporate entities who are harmed by them.”
The order and procedure of the strike were also illegal.
It was unacceptable that he occupied the representative office with an iron pipe, excluding the steps he had to go through.
It was similar to the future American car company scam, but the content was completely different.
It was like a robber threatening to open a safe at a company that even guarantees employment.
No matter how much I am raising a huge financial income, I couldn’t spread it randomly.
Even dead ancestors wouldn’t want that.
“Notify the media. It means that the company will not sit idly by with illegal hard labor practices.”
“okay! If CEO Jang is black, he has to be black. This is not what the children can see. They have no conscience.”
Attorney Jo also nodded.
You don’t have to make money from factories anyway.
If you hold on to the end, you can apply for court management and blow it up.
There is no compromise with ignorant people who even kick their own rice cookers.
It is human desire to make unreasonable demands again once the principles are broken.
Tainted desires should make it difficult to lift one’s head.
The structure in which only legitimate efforts are recognized is justice and law.
That’s what makes the world go round.
Tiri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri.
A low-pitched chord cell phone rang.
“Senior Sieun?”
The sudden call was Sieun Onsen.
thump! thump thump! thump!
Instead of an answer, a loud beeping sound was heard.
“Hello~.”
A woman’s voice was heard for the first time.
“who are you?”
“Jang Tae-san?”
It’s half the word when I saw it.
“Yes, but who are you?”
“I’m Shi-eun’s friend.”
“……Please change Sieun-senpai.”
Senior Sieun is not the kind of person who would make such a mistake.
I felt something strange.
“Si-Eun is out now~ Do you want to come pick me up?”
The sudden questionable woman’s voice was full of teasing.
Just hearing it once makes me feel cocky.
On Si-eun seems to have something going on around her.
“How are you?”
“Cheongdam-dong Club K. Come on time~ There are a lot of drooling wolves around~.”
“Cheack.”
It was also mixed with the lewd laughter of men coming over the phone.
The steam boiled over.
Who knows, got me wrong today.
If something happens to On Si-eun…
I’m thinking of slashing the map with an orc axe.
