산별교섭에 대한 평가 및 만족도의 영향분석 : 보건의료노조의 사례

Evaluation of Collective Bargaining at the Industry-level: The Case of Korean Health and Medical Workers UnionJoohee Lee Established in 1998, the Korean Health and Medical Workers Union completed its first industry-level collective bargaining in 2004. Based on the Union's 2004 Survey, which contained about 4,000 union members responses to the questionnaire, I investigated the union members' evaluation of the industry-level bargaining in 2004. Overall, the union members were rather satisfied with the outcome of the industry-level agreement, but their responses differed on specific bargaining items, depending on their status within the Union, and on the characteristics of the hospitals to which they belong. The leaders of the Union were more satisfied with the framework agreement, and less satisfied with the agreement related to improving the working conditions of nonstandard workers, than rank-and-file members were. Compared to the workers in small private hospitals, those workers employed in more profitable public or private university hospitals with higher employers' ability to pay were less satisfied with the wage increase rate, which was lower than the usual due to the introduction of 5-day work. These findings of the paper point to the following two policy recommendations. First, the Union must improve the coordination and cooperation among its hospital locals. The process inevitably involves tightening control of the Union over its locals. Second, it order to secure safe landing of the industry-level bargaining, the existing wage gap and differences in working conditions between large hospitals and small and medium sized hospitals must be narrowed.