A GLOBAL labour grouping exposed “medieval conditions” at South Korean transnational Samsung in a report published yesterday.

International Trade Union Confederation general secretary Sharan Burrow accused Samsung of a litany of abuses “from denying justice to the families of former employees who died from cancers caused by unsafe workplaces to dodging tax and engaging in price-fixing cartels.

“One thing is constant: Samsung’s corporate culture is ruthlessly geared towards maximising profit to the detriment of the everyday lives of its workers,” she said.