87년 체제 이후 노동관계법화와 전망

“1987 Labour Regime" was shaped by the massive uprising of the employees from July to September in 1987, followed by “June civil revolution" of that year. It can be characterized by the emerging new labour movement which was led by male manual full-time workers for heavy industry companies. As, before “1987 Labour Regime", the government had restraint free labour movement through direct interventions in industrial relations, “1987 Labour Regime" was the turning point to achieve industrial democracy in enterprise level. As a result, the government was compelled to amend the evil labour legislation. President Kim Young-sam was attempting a new experiment to amend labour legislation. He organized “the Committee to Reform Labour System" which was consisted of representatives of labour, employer, and experts. It was the first attempt to amend labour legislation to reflect the voices of the interested parties in Korean labour history. Although it could not succeed in achieving agreements between the parties, it made some progress towards self-determination in policy-making level. The lessons about the institutionalization of collective voice in policy-making were succeeded by President Kim Dae-joong. He established “Korean Tripartite Commission" which was composed of labour representatives, employer representatives, and government representatives. Now the labour side could directly contact with government regarding labour issues. As we can see from the development of the process for amending labour legislation, changes in labour relations system since “1987 Labour Regime" can be characterized by the expansion of self-determination by the concerned parties, especially labour sides. Although directly after 1987, the self-determination by the labour unionism remained in enterprise level, it have been expanded its scope by participating in policy-making level.