‘민주적인 코포라티즘’을 향하여 - 민주노총은 왜 코로나19 사회협약의 체결에 실패했는가 -

In 2020, the KCTU proposed “Tripartite Consultation for Overcoming the Covid-19 Economic Crisis”, but as a provisional agreement was rejected at the delegates’ meeting, the KCTU could not participate in the agreement ceremony, and the leadership resigned. This article aims to examine the reasons why the KCTU failed to sign a social pact from the perspective of strategic choice theory and to present alternatives. Due to the lack of leadership, the KCTU failed to establish a strategy based on the political situation analysis. In other words, the political exchange through the proposal of concession was not successful. As a result, they clung to government-dependent consultations and did not receive approval for the provisional agreement. Behind it, it is diagnosed that there is not the absence of a centralized and hierarchical organizational order, but the undemocratic nature of the decision-making process in which the opinions of members cannot be collected. As a way to increase the leadership of the KCTU, this article proposes democratic corporatism. This consists of two processes: the aggregation of the member preferences through the member's general meeting and the process of deliberation to form the preferences. This is a realistic means in that it can be selected even with the current constitution of the KCTU.