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Type of Unions:
The unions are separated into three levels; local, regional, and national. Traditionally, it is the local level that does collective bargaining, while regional and national levels serve only for consultations and discussions (Park, 2001). This created a problem where bargaining issues and decisions tend to be firm-specific, instead occupation-specific, such as in Australia.
These adverse conditions result in strong demand for better and more involved labour unions. Two national level union federations were later recognised by the government, Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU), and Korea Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) (previously, FKTU was the only national labour union recognised) (Park, 2001).Confrontation between union and management:
With the increased involvement of labour unions, and coupled with slow recovery of the economic crisis, the year 1998 and 1999 saw many protests and strikes from various industries. The latest rampage was in April 2001, where 300 Daewoo employees were abused by 500 riot police, in what started to be a peaceful strike. Several pictures of this carnage are included in our presentation. These pictures and a movie clip are available at KCTU's website, www.kctu...