한국 산별교섭에 대한 국제비교론적 평가

Evaluation on Korean Industrial Bargaining:International Comparison Joonmo ChoWon-hee LeeWhile previous researches focused on the internal labor-management relations of industrial bargaining, this study focuses on the influences of socioeconomic factors such as decentralization, political unionism, welfare state, and coverage of collective agreements. This study identifies differences in industrial bargaining systems of Korea and European nations. The industrial bargaining systems of Nordic (Sweden), Rhine (German), and Latin (France or Italy) were built institutionally on the base of well-developed social welfare systems and political unionism. In addition, Most European nations have a wide coverage of industrial collective agreement, but the effect of union wage premium on the enterprise level is known to be trivial. Therefore unions in those nations are trying to improve working conditions through welfare systems but are subject to concessional collective bargaining, at least on the enterprise level. Regarding Korean unions' strategy to ground stable industrial bargaining, this study suggests some points to be considered such as (1) concessional collective bargaining of large enterprise unions for irregular workers and employees in small-medium firms, (2) expansion of social welfare, and (3) efforts to raise the density of unions and expand collective agreement coverage. Korean unions' strategy of pursuing a European style of industrial bargaining will meet many obstacles unless they give up the high wage premium at the enterprise level. On the other hand, if the Korean unions want to maintain the current level of high wage premium, the Anglo-Saxon model seems to be more suitable for Korean industrial unions to follow.