한국 자동차업체의 글로벌 생산과 노동조합의 대응정책: 현대자동차의 사례를 중심으로

Faced with increases in global business and overseas production in the Korean car industry, trade unions need to develop new strategies. Unions’ responses have so far focused on defending the status quo of production and making collective agreements whose effectiveness is being questioned. The passive and defensive responses have not enabled unions to bring the global production strategy under control. The current situation has called for developing labor-participative formation strategies which could lead to a sustainable employment and investment of industrial location. This study aims to investigate the way in which the growing overseas production has affected industrial relations and to examine unions’ responses required for dealing with major problems facing unions and industrial relations. To this end, this critically reviews existing literature on changes in industrial relations and unions’ responses in relation to global production in the car industry and then proposes an analytical framework for this study. Secondly, it examines some issues of global production and its effects on domestic industrial location before moving on to the analysis of unions’ responses to overseas production strategy by conducting a case study of Hyundai Motors. Lastly, this suggests what unions need to develop sooner not later against the backdrop of a growing global production.