정규직 노동조합과 비정규직 정규직화의 정치: 타타대우상용차 사례 연구

Capitalist strategy of labor market fragmentation tends to divide workers into two segments such as regular workers and contingent workers, which then put themselves into enemies of each other segment. Even the labor unions in strong alliance with contingent workers came to abandon its alliance in the face of the opposition of their union members who don't appreciate the possible conversion of contingent workers into regular workers. In TataDaewoo, the management endorsed the union demand of conversion and thus has executed the conversion of 30 to 50 contingent workers into regular workers each year. It is the aim of this study to answer to such questions as “why did the regular worker union attempt to realize the conversion of contingent workers, and how could they realize it successfully?” “why did the management agree to the conversion?”. In TataDaewoo, as the labor union of regular workers adopted the strategy of regulation regarding the question of contingent workers, and the management retreated from the maximal flexibilization strategy to the regulated flexibilization strategy, so that both sides could end up with agreement on the institutionalization of collective bargaining over the conversion. Since the labor union stuck to the regulation strategy and the management came to recognize positive functions of conversion, they could institutionalize the conversion process. The management could solicit loyalty and productivity enhancing endeavor on the part of contingent workers by providing them with opportunities for conversion, while they could maintain peaceful relationship with the labor union by yielding to the union demand for conversion. The labor union, on the other hand, enabled contingent workers to accept hierarchical representation of contingent workers inferior to regular workers by representing contingent workers in the politics of conversion. In this way, such three actors as the labor union, the management and contingent workers could maintain a stable exchange relationship among themselves in the politics of conversion. Indeed, the success of labor union strategy of regulation owed significantly to some peculiar conditions of TataDaewoo: both white-collar and blue-collar workers were unionized into the single union, union activists were not divided according to the national fraction structure of labor union movement, the size of regular employment was increasing consistently in line with the increase of production volume. In the phase of institutionalization of conversion, new recruitment of contingent workers are under control of labor union and contingent workers are unionized into the same labor union with regular workers. That's why TataDaewoo has now better prospect than before for the reduction of contingent employment size and the alleviation of discriminatory treatment for contingent workers.