정규직 노조의 비정규직 조직화 경험 사례연구 - 성공과 실패 요인 분석을 중심으로 -

This study aimed to investigate the key success and failure factors in organizing non-regular workers led by trade unions of regular workers in small and medium-sized enterprisies. For this purpose, this study examined regular worker unions’ experience of organizing non-regular workers which was established by the institutionalization of the practice on the conversion of non-regular workers into regular ones. The data used were as follows ; indepth interviews of trade union officials and union members in four workplaces in Ansan conducted from May to June 2017, a round-table discussion of workplace union representatives affiliated to the Federation of Korean Metalworkers’ Trade Unions (FKMTU), and the survey on FKMTU’ workplaces under the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU), etc. Key success and failure factors were analyzed focusing on the trade union factor and workplace factor. The findings are as follows; According to the trade union factor, success cases were characterized by regular worker unions’ policy and union leaders’ strong will with regard to the protection and organizing of contingent workers, internal consensus among union members achieved by education, propaganda and protest activities for contingent workers, activities for contingent workers’ rights and interest, and union members’ trust in trade unions. On the other hand, the features of failure cases were summarized as the abandonment of organizing contingent workers by regular worker unions, inactive protection of contingent workers, and union’s responsibilities for regular workers. According to the trade union factor, the characteristics of success cases were sound financial status of the companies, well-developed interpersonal relationships between regular and non-regular workers resulting from conducting the same types of job on the same production lines, minor differences in working conditions between regular and non-regular workers, etc. On the other hand, failure factors were featured by two times of company restructuring resulting from financial crises, union’s responsibilities on job security for its members, and discrimination in working conditions against contingent workers. In addition, success cases were found among unions which were actively engaged in solidarity activities at regional level while failure cases were dominant in unions which concentrated on internal activities.