POSCO’s Representative Organizations, Including the POSCO Labor Union and Labor-Management Council, Participate in Overseas Donation Efforts and Have Been Washing, Packaging, and Transporting Old Uniforms Since March

Delivered to Low-Income Livestock Farmers in Mongolia in Collaboration with International NGO Global Sharing Movement

POSCO’s labor and management have achieved their first significant milestone in meaningfully repurposing old uniforms, which they have used together for the past 30 years. On June 3, POSCO’s labor and management held a ceremony at the Jargalant Community Development and Education Center in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to donate old uniforms to low-income livestock farmers.

This donation was made in collaboration with the Global Sharing Movement (NGO), which conducts educational projects for low-income livestock farmers in Mongolia. The event was attended by representatives from POSCO’s labor organizations, including the POSCO Labor Union, the Labor-Management Council, the Labor Cooperation Office, and the Global Sharing Movement.

In February, POSCO introduced new uniforms that prioritize safety in line with global standards. The company announced plans to explore new uses for the existing sky-blue uniforms, including supporting vulnerable overseas communities. Of the old uniforms, 10,000 pieces will be used by workers in low-income livestock farming communities in Mongolia, 20,000 pieces were donated to a vocational training sewing center in Madagascar, and 60,000 pieces will be sent to job-creation sewing centers in the Philippines, Nepal, and Ethiopia to help low-income women become self-reliant. These uniforms will undergo reprocessing and commercialization.

Bon-seok Lee, the employee representative of POSCO’s Labor-Management Council, said, “We are honored to donate POSCO’s uniforms overseas and will continue to actively participate in meaningful activities in the future.” Seong-han Lee, the planning director of the POSCO Labor Union, said, “We will fulfill the social responsibilities of the union and lead the way in establishing an exemplary K-labor-management culture. We also plan to actively participate in volunteer and sharing activities in the future.” Since March, POSCO’s labor union and labor-management council have worked together on washing, packaging, and transporting the uniforms for donation.

Meanwhile, this donation effort is particularly meaningful in that it involved POSCO Group’s collective capabilities. POSCO Humans, the first domestic subsidiary-type standard workplace for the disabled, collected and washed the uniforms, while POSCO Flow used domestic and international logistics networks to transport them overseas.

▲POSCO’s labor and management representatives take a commemorative photo with livestock farming community members in Jargalant, Mongolia, after delivering the old uniforms.

More than 100 people attended the dedication ceremony, including Jeong-sik Kwak, the head of POSCO’s External Relations Office, the vice-governor of Rayong, Thailand, the representative of Habitat for Humanity Thailand, the POSCO Group Employee Volunteer Corps and members of the local community.

Jeong-shik Kwak, head of the ER Department of POSCO said, “The Thailand love houses are especially meaningful because the employees of POSCO Group donated 1 percent of their salaries and participated in the construction process. I hope that these love houses will give hope to locals in need.”

POSCO representatives and locals at the dedication ceremony of the love houses in Pluak Daeng, Thailand.

The construction was completed by 50 volunteers of the POSCO Group Employee Global Volunteer Corps from Korea, and 30 employees of POSCO Thainox, POSCO-TCS and POSCO-TBPC.

New resident Tun Kedwarin was moved to tears and stated, “In my old house made of wooden boards, water kept leaking and the house was in danger of collapsing. I was always worried, but now I can sleep without fear, and I am truly happy. I am grateful to POSCO and the government who built me a house.”

POSCO Group Employee Global Volunteer Corps members and Pichamon, a new resident of the love house.

POSCO Group Employee Global Volunteer Corps was established in 2015, and consists of employees of POSCO Group and outsourcing partners who donate 1 percent of their monthly salary. It’s all a part of POSCO’s unique culture of volunteering and giving back to communities.

This year, the members spent 8 days in Thailand starting from August 5, during their personal vacation days and also visited a local school to introduce Korean traditional culture to the students.

OSCO Group volunteers and Thai global staff members worked together for the construction of the love houses.

POSCO also completed 104 houses in Vietnam last May, and donated them to low-income families. In Korea, POSCO constructed steel houses made from PosMAC and donated them to victims of fires and low-income families around the country, all as part of the effort to give back and build stronger communities around the world.

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