미국의 노동조합 경비원조에 대한 태도와 시사점

In the case of supporting the wage of full-time labor officers in the United States, in principle, the problem on whether or not it is regarded as unfair labor practice does not occur since the labor union pay it to them. Therefore, in the United States, the wage of full-time labor officers is the principle that a labor union has a burden by itself and it has the financial independence unlike Korea because it aims at the industrial and job classificational system and the system beyond corporations. Supporting the operating expenses to labor unions is prohibited as an unfair labor practice or unlawful act under the National Labor Relations Act since an employer or a labor union is the subject of action. In other words, the employer is regulated as an unfair labor practice or unlawful act against supporting operating expenses to labor unions while the labor union is regulated as an unfair labor practice regarding the act to exact the supporting of operating expenses to it In the United States, the Union Lost Time Payment is the system that union officers, union Stewards, or Union Committee Members take time off from their regular jobs to investigate a grievance, negotiate a contract, attend a safety meeting, or perform other work for the union. It is enforced systematically from the Office of Labor-Management Standards under the related provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. The union officers receive the wages from their unions not employers which are deducted during work performance for the unions and the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act requires that the labor unions observe the fundamental standards of financial policy in order to improve their transparency and responsibility.