A-Infos (en) France, CNT-AIT, Anarchosyndicalisme #179: NO BLOOD IN OUR BREAD! (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On October 15, 2022, a young worker from the Korean fast food company "Paris 
Baguette" died at her workplace in Pyeongtaek, 65 kilometers south of Seoul. The 
young woman was grabbed by a giant blender in which she was pouring ingredients. 
To save time during the work, it seems that the management had removed the safety 
protections... The body of the victim was not found until the next morning, when 
the colleagues took him out of the machine. After which the management gave them 
the order to get back to work. Height of contempt, the owner of the company sent 
to the funeral of the young woman as a funeral wreath... a box filled with rolls!

This fatal accident occurred almost 30 years to the day after that of Mark 
Hopkins, who was electrocuted on October 12, 1992 in the McDonald's restaurant in 
Manchester. There too, the safety rules were not respected, for financial 
reasons. The global emotion aroused by his death had sparked the organization of 
the week of solidarity with fast food workers for several years. Since then, 
accidents, sometimes fatal, have followed one another regularly, in industrial 
bakeries as well as artisanal bakeries, the latest having occurred on September 
22 in a family bakery in Meru in Île-de-France.

These real workplace killings don't make the headlines, they don't spark massive 
outrage on social media, no hot writer will write a book to expose them, there 
won't be late night collages about walls to count injuries and deaths at work. 
Because at work, we die in the general indifference of society, which is moved by 
animal welfare, but does not want to know in what conditions the human animals 
that produce its food are treated.

These accidents show that the State and the Law are useless and do not protect 
us: all the industrial countries (in Korea as in France) have many laws which 
have been voted by deputies from both right and left, and which in theory oblige 
the bosses to ensure the safety of the workers. In France, the first official 
State service to control that the bosses respect their obligations is even 
exactly 130 years old, it was created by the law of November 2, 1892. But every 
day workers die at work (318 to November 30 2022), which shows that neither laws 
nor the state are of any use in protecting us against the voracious appetite for 
profit of the bosses.

If the workers want to ensure their safety, they can only count on themselves, by 
organizing themselves collectively and autonomously, without owing anything to 
the boss or the state. Against the use of dangerous machines or to demand 
protective equipment or training in prevention, direct collective action, in 
particular strikes or even the slowing down of production rates, remain the best 
weapons at our disposal.

ACCIDENTS AT WORK = EMPLOYEE TERRORISM

What happened to this young worker can happen to us tomorrow, because we are 
subjected to the same working conditions under the pressure of profitability at 
all costs. The death of this worker in Korea should not be added to the long list 
of deaths forgotten by corporate terrorism. This is why we join the worldwide 
boycott movement initiated by the Korean public and the workers of this country 
against #Paris Baguette and the parent company #SPC, until serious security 
measures are put in place. .

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