Intractable – volume 3

South Korea, at the turn of the 2000s, during the economic and social fallout from the financial crisis in Asia. Gu Go-shin, a labor activist who founded a small worker advocacy agency, and Lee Soo-in, a promising young retail executive from the military, fight against the detestable social practices of Lee's new employer. , a powerful French group recently established in Korea. Now that the employees have succeeded in creating a union branch in the supermarket, they are starting to carry out their actions and are trying to recruit new members. Determined to frustrate all negotiations, the company implements a strategy of intimidation to prevail against union members: unfair sanctions, various pressures, constant remarks. Faced with a boss who does not want to let go, will the employees succeed in continuing the fight? Choi Kyu-sok transposes the conflictual – and ultimately failed – establishment of Carrefour in Korea into fiction and devotes this third volume to the negotiations between the union and the group's management. The author depicts with finesse the different stages of the showdown between a large company with relentless cogs and employees ready to do anything to carry their demands. What emerges is a very fair portrait of the daily life of social struggles, and in particular of the consequences of a confrontation that drags on. Translated from Korean by Kette Amoruso Employees versus multinationals: how to resist a boss ready to do anything to break a social movement?