Changwon School Meal Workers "Let's Enact an Ordinance to Promote Health for Collective Meal Service Workers"

Group meal service workers in Changwon Special City, Gyeongnam, have declared the launch of a campaign to enact a resident ordinance supporting their health.

The Changwon Residents' Assembly Organizing Committee held a press conference in front of City Hall on the 2nd and announced the start of the "Changwon City Group Meal Service Workers Health Support Resident Ordinance Enactment Movement."

The organizing committee stated, "From today until July, we will begin the full-scale collection of resident signatures for the ordinance enactment."

They plan to collect signatures from about 5,800 Changwon citizens, submit them to the city council in July, and carry out one-person protests and public opinion campaigns to ensure the ordinance passes in the city council.

The Organizing Committee of the Changwon Residents' Assembly in Gyeongnam is announcing the movement to enact a residents' ordinance supporting the health of collective meal service workers.
[Photo by Lee Seryeong]

They said, "Last November, at the 2nd Changwon Residents' Assembly for Livelihood Revival, we prepared nine demands for Changwon City, and the first demand was to establish measures to prevent lung diseases among group meal service workers."

They added, "On April 27, Gyeongnam Province announced that it would be the first local government to start lung cancer screenings and ventilation system precision diagnosis consulting for 93 cooking workers under the provincial government to prevent occupational diseases," emphasizing, "Changwon City should also support lung CT screening costs for group meal service workers soon and assess the working conditions of group meal service workers."

The organizing committee stated, "The issue of the deadly meal service rooms where collective lung cancer occurs is ultimately a matter of budget," and said, "We will promote the Changwon City Group Meal Service Workers Health Promotion Ordinance to inform citizens about workers' health rights and create the ordinance through residents' power."

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