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Analysis of the Functional Level of Labor Relations: Focusing on Wage and Collective Bargaining and Labor Disputes

In: Employment Relations in South Korea

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  • Yong-Jin Nho

    (Seoul National University of Technology and Science)

Abstract

After years of pent-up frustration, Korean unionism exploded back into motion in 1987, whereupon the traditional functions of industrial relations — wage bargaining and collective bargaining — were activated. As a characteristic of an emerging stage of unionism, union members as well as their leaders focused more on improving wages and working conditions that had a direct impact on the lives of workers than on the institutional development of collective industrial relations. This led to frequent labor disputes and very high wage increase rates. Moreover, because most of the bargaining units were at enterprise level, this in turn led to the problematic widening of interfirm wage differentials.

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  • Yong-Jin Nho, 2014. "Analysis of the Functional Level of Labor Relations: Focusing on Wage and Collective Bargaining and Labor Disputes," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kiu Sik Bae (ed.), Employment Relations in South Korea, chapter 7, pages 115-135, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-42808-0_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137428080_7
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