| Title |
A Comparative Study on the Operation Status and Solidarity of the Regular Worker's and Daily Worker's Construction Labor Union |
| Authors |
Son Chang-Baek ; Lee Duck-Chan |
| Keywords |
Regular Worker's Construction Labor Union ; Daily Worker's Construction Labor Union ; Labor Environment ; Solidarity |
| Abstract |
Working environment of construction workers is very weak. They work for a living in 3D condition; dangerous, dirty and difficult. They are most daily laborers, their employment is unstable. These problems make worse the demand and supply system of workers in the construction industry.
The one measure to solve such problems is to activate the union action. According to a new World Bank study on the effects of unions and collective bargaining in the global economy, workers who belong to unions earn higher wages, work fewer hours, receive more training, and have longer job tenure on average, than their non-unionized colleague. At the macroeconomic level, high unionization rates lead to lower inequality of earnings and can improve economic performance(in the form of lower unemployment and inflation, higher productivity and speedier adjustment to shock).
This study aims to strengthen the solidarity of the Regular Worker's Construction Labor Union and Daily Worker's Construction Labor Union, which were integrated in 1999.
This study compares and analyzes their present conditions of the system operations, major activities and opinions on the solidarity, through the questionnaire and interview surveys. |