Public Employee Unionization and Path Dependency in Korean Social Concertation

• 발행기관: 한국비교정부학회
• 저자명: Yuki Min SeonHee Hwang JungWook Seo
• 간행물 정보: 『한국비교정부학보』제16권 제2호, 1~22쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 행정학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.08.30

영문 초록

Public employee unionization has been a core agenda in Korean social concertation since the military-backed Roh Tae Woo government. The 1998 Social Pacts made an agreement to organize public employee unions in the Kim Dae Jung government. This study pays attention to the historical context of social concertation systems that played an important role in organizing public employee unions in Korea. This study suggests that path dependency in the social concertation systems is a key variable for explaining public employee unionization in Korea. In particular, path dependencies in human resource composition and agenda setting elaborated and deepen the discussion about the issues related to public employee unionization. Social concertation systems(the LLRC, the LMRRC, and the KTC) showed a strong path dependency in the composition of human resources although each government had its own political characteristics. About 67 percent of the LLRC members joined the LMRRC as regular members and 40 percent of the LMRRC members participated in the KTC. The similarities of human resource composition in the social concertation systems are positively associated with path dependency in agenda setting. The path dependency in agenda setting was outstandingly showed in the issue of public employee unions. A permission level of labor basic rights for rank-and-file civil servants has been quite similar from a draft bill of the LLRC to the public employee unions act of the KTC. Without the experiences of the LLRC and the LMRRC, it was impossible for the KTC to make the public employee unionization in 1998.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Theoretical Background

III. Korean Social Concertation Systems

IV. Policy Implication

V. Conclusion

References

키워드

사회협의제도 경로의존성 공무원노조 노동기본권 노사정위원회 Social Concertation Systems Path Dependency Public Employee Unions Labor Rights Korea Tripartite Commission