비정규직 투쟁과 정규직 노동조합의 딜레마: 캐리어와 지엠대우 창원공장의 사례연구

Although unionization and struggle of irregular workers continues, their unionization rate remains in stagnation. It has been found that regular-irregular worker alliance is the key factor to the success of their unionization and struggle, but systematic explanation of the choice and dilemma of regular worker union has not been provided yet. Based on cases in which unionization and struggle of irregular workers began with a firm regular-irregular worker alliance but ended up with a failure with alliance in destruction, this study is going to analyse the constraints and dilemmas for active alliance practice. Through a comparative analysis of Carrier and GMDaewoo-Changwon, it was found that irregular worker struggle provided regular-irregular worker alliance with a momentum for the process of destruction. Irregular worker enabled regular workers to realize their own material interests in opposition to those of irregular workers in the fear of employment instability. Owing to the change of regular workers' attitudes, regular worker unions found themselves in a dilemma and chose to stick to the interest group identity instead of the class organization identity and thus serve the material interests of regular workers. In addition to the enhanced individual-level rationality of regular workers, the demand for recruitment of irregular workers into regular workers, the mode of activities and struggle of irregular worker union and the newly self-assigned role of mediator facilitated regular worker unions to abandon their alliance with irregular worker struggle. In the end, irregular worker unions became isolated and had to escalated their level of militancy, so that regular-irregular worker alliance was destructed. Finally, irregular worker struggles were defeat with their labor unions fully disintegrated. The biggest loser was irregular worker union, which failed to turn their members into regular workers and had their organization disintegrated in the process of fierce struggle. Regular worker labor union was another loser who also suffered in their intra-union solidarity and its control over shopfloor. The company turned out to be the only and great winner which fully recovered its control over shopfloor with its workforce divided along the type of employment, the destruction of irregular worker union and the disablement of regular worker union. although it had been driven into a defensive due to illegality of dispatched workers and unionization of irregular workers with regular-irregular worker alliance at the outbreak of irregular worker struggle. Both cases of irregular worker struggle failure show that the principal imperative of irregular worker union is survival rather than success, and that a strategical approach is in need for irregular worker union to face the existence of regular worker egoism and the dilemma of regular worker union.