PSPD in English Socio-Economic 2009-10-13   2086

Urge the Lee Government to Stop Unjustifiable Interference with Union Activities


 


Urge the Lee Government
to Stop Unjustifiable Interference with Union Activities
and Recognize the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
as a Consultative Partner for Labor Policies!


Three Civil Servants Trade Unions agreed to merge into a single entity and join the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(KCTU) through members’ voting. The People’s Solidarity for Participation Democracy(PSPD) expects that the integrated trade union plays a significant role in carrying out reform of the bureaucrat and developing trade union movement in Republic of Korea.


However, Prime Minister, the ruling Party(Grand National Party), nominee for Minister of Labor and the Blue House are making political attacks on the civil servants trade union’s join in KCTU, accusing KCTU of an unlawful political force. It is obviously an unjust labor practice because it denies the laborer’s autonomous right to choose a confederal trade union.


The Fair Labor Committee of PSPD urges the Lee Government to stop unjustifiable interfering with rightful trade union activities, and to recognize KCTU as a consultative partner for labor policies. Choosing a confederal trade union is the right to association  and a fundamental labor right as stipulated in the Constitution. It is not a matter for the government and the ruling party to intervene in. It is a matter for laborers to decide independently, autonomously.


It is an excessive intervention for government to oppress civil servants not to vote, on the pretext of that it would result in political activities of civil servants, which the constitution prohibits. It violates labor laws and is unjust labor practice. Moreover, the Ministry of Labor already admitted that “the behavior itself of joining KCTU is not unlawful.” The Lee government is suspected to have a strategy to isolate KCTU by stigmatizing it ‘political struggle’ and ‘illegal organization.’


It is a critical time for dialogue and compromising of tripartite(labor, corporation and government) since the labor market has been deteriorated and the nominee for the Labor Minister asserted for establishing constructive labor relations as a core labor policy. PSPD urge the Lee Government to to acknowledge KCTU as a consultative partner for labor policies.


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