노동사 학술대회(Labor History Conference)

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ave fears that they would lost their own jobs if contingent workers have more power. Then they usually make barriers to contingent workers not to guarantee union membership by the constitution and sometimes interfere in organizing process of contingent brothers. Even in a case, established union broke out contingent workers' strike violently and expelled the strikers from factories.
In sum, the unions find themselves in a difficult predicament. Three main programmes of KCTU, which are Industrial Unionism, Social Reform and Independent Political Activities, are injuring. Indutrial unionism is under challenge with merged enterprise branch still reject contingent worker's joining. Voice for progressive social refoem such as shorter work week becomes weak while organized workers want more over-time work because they want to tackle inflation and income decrease. They tends to pursue more short-term interest rather than long-and-medium-term interest. National Center and industrial federation do not have sufficient methods to handle their affiliates because most of organized power is concentrated to enterprise level. It also become significant obstacle to political decision on labor party.
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Nonethless, there are new hope appeared in the visible form of contingent workers' solidaristic struggle. Contrary to above attitude of established unions, new unions emerging from marginal working-class shows new solidarity within labor.
Thousands of temporary workers belonging to Korea Telecom formed their own union in May last year. At first, though they were rejected by KT Union, which is one of the biggest enterprise union in Korea, they didn't give up and finally persuaded their permanent fellows. KT union rejected to united fight against their employer's attack of massive dismissal. When temporary workers's isolated strike continued more than 5 month, KT Union also received a tough blow of massive dismissal from employer. Temporary workers didn't hesitate to decide to implement joint campaign for anti-dismissal.
In addition, hundreds of unions formed by temporary, part-time, contract workers in past 2 years. Various forms of union are appearing against various forms of work and employment. They are making new solidaristic chains between labor and student, between labor and civilian organizations and between regular and contingent workers. They also shows new progressiveness and new militancy in respect to their demand and attitude. While past labor movement pursue distributional justice in the time of high growth, these new unions proposes solidaristic improvement of quality of working life in the age of 'low growth'. In sum, their movement for 'non-discrimination, regularization, equal labor right' becomes important stimulus to broad social movement in Korea.
It is time to consider the possibility of new radical labor movement of contingent workers toward New Unionism in the 21st Century in Korea based on significant self-reflection of past movement.

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