한미행정협정 체결 이후 전국외국기관노동조합의 감원반대와 퇴직금개선 운동

Foreign Organization Korean Employ(FOKE) the organization succeeded The United States Army Korean Employee Labor Union which had been organized in 1959. This union was reorganized into FOKE on August 21, 1961. FOKE developed a revision movement of Status-of-Forces Agreement(SOFA) after SOFA was agreed. However, this movement had no option to be finished with little outcome because the wave of layoff due to the reduction in the number of U.S. forces in Korea affected influenced FOKE’s activities. FOKE lauched anti-layoff movement in the latter part of 1961. FOKE risked collective action directly without regard for the process of the SOFA or a collective agreement. However, FOKE could not get the logic to refute against the U.S. Army’s contention that they must reduce in number of Korean employees in need of an operation, either it eventually failed to defend layoff. The best struggle for FOKE was to minimize the number of layoff or to delay the time to fire workers under the SOFA. Therefore, layoff was decided not to be avoided and mass layoffs continued. KOKE, the Labor Office, the Eighth U.S. Army carried out Korea-U.S.’ joint vocational training to set up measures for layoff, but little product they made. Meanwhile, FOKE launched the campaign to raise their retiring allowance with criticizing the retiring allowance system by the headquarters of the USFK was remarkably less than Labor Standards Law’s standard in Korea. The result given from 1963 to 1967 left much to be desired. The key point of the campaign was to set up average pay into the standard of the retiring allowance with unification of retiring allowance’s cumulative rate, but it could not be fulfilled at all. FOKE’s campaign to raise their retiring allowance continued in 1969, so the dispute on the retiring allowance was referred to Korea-U.S.’ joint committee. It can be said that the first labor dispute case to be sent to Korea-U.S.’ joint committee along the administrative procedures after effectuation of the SOFA. FOKE could get the right for use of force as its case was referred to the joint committee and 70 days’ arbitration expired. However, FOKE could not take advantage of this good opportunity appropriately. Instead it showed compromise proposal by extending the arbitration of the joint committee. The campaign to raise retiring allowance resumed in February, 1970 and it concluded on December 24, 1971. New retiring allowance system launched on January 1, 1972 was computed the amount into average pay according to cumulative rate. Also, the workers were supposed to be given the legal minimum retiring allowance it the amount would be less than the legal minimum retiring allowance.