1. Hyundai Motor Branch Korean Metal Workers’ Union

2. Union Daily Activity

3. Hyundai Motor branch union belongs to KMWU
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4. General information on Korean workers
Population: 51,700,000
Workers: 18 million (precarious workers 58%)
Unionization: 1.87 million (union density: 10.2%)
KCTU: 700,000
FKTU: 840,000
Independent: 330,000
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5. Turning point: Year 1987 1979 December: military coup
1987 January: a student activist tortured to death
1987 April: military dictator resolved to defend the regime
1987 June: peoples’ democratic struggle (5 million joined in 22 cities)
1987 June: a student activity hit to death
1987 June 29: military regime accepted democratic presidential election
1987 July 5: Hyundai Engine Union established
1987 July-September: 4,000 unions established across the nation
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6. History of Hyundai Motor Union
1987 July 25: Hyundai Motor Union established
1998: the union merged with Hyundai Motor Service Union and Hyundai Precise Engineering Union
2006: the union members decided to join the KMWU (71.54%)
2007: the union dissolved itself and changed into a KMWU branch
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7. Structure of KMWU Hyundai Motor Branch
KCTU
KMWU
Hyundai Motor Branch
Ulsan Unit
Other Units 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 엔진 변속 소재 통 합 남 양 아 산 전 주 판 매 정 비
모비스
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8. Membership of KMWU Hyundai Motor
Items
General
Research
Sales
operator
maintenance
extraordinary
other
Total
(Average)
Number
3,316
4,070
6,031
33,033
2,189 8 1
48,648
general
service year
12.6
5.0
21.8
22.5
23.8
27.1
24.3
20.3
Age
36.8
30.8
48.9
48.2
48.0
50.6
57.5
46.1
retire service year
6.8
4.5
9.2
7.6
9.9
10.5
9.3
family
2.5
1.8
4.1
3.6
4.0
2.6
2.0
3.4
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9. Structure of KMWU Hyundai Motor
General Assembly (48,648 members)
Branch Congress (529 delegates)
Steering Committee (in Ulsan plant with 18 officials)
Expanded Steering Committee (Steering Committee 18 + Regional Committee 6 = 24 officials)
Ulsan plant executive committee (11 sections 33 departments: 57 officers, regional committee officers 60)
Full-timers (time-off 21명 + full-timers 96 =117)
Branch union office located in Ulsan plant, regional (unit) committee located in each factory
Audit committee
Women committee
Factory and section committees (Ulsan, regional committees)
Section committees
Workplace committees (3-5 persons per 1 delegate)
Other committees (education, political, national unification, social solidarity, wage system, work type change)
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10. Delegate of KMWU Hyundai Motor
537 delegates
Ulsan plant: 276 delegates (12 of women quota, 9 in business unit)
Regional Committees: 261 delegates (7 of women quota): 60 in Namyang, 31 in Asan, 48 in Jeonju, 31`in repair, 74 in sales, 17 in MOBIS
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11. Paid time for union education
New member training: 4 hours
Members training: yearly 12 hours
Shop stewards training: yearly 8 hours
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12. Means of production- Body Profit – Survival & Life
Workers ?
Capitalists and Workers
Capitalist: ownership of the means of production (machine, materials, factory site)
Workers: sell the power of labor to capitalists and earn wage for their life
Means of production- Body
Profit – Survival & Life
making money – making life
Capitalist
Workers
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13. The right to be respected as human and be guaranteed with decent life
Workers’ rights
The right to be respected as human and be guaranteed with decent life
Legal rights: the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, the right to collective action
It is essential for workers to be united in union.
Defend the right to decent life with dignity
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14. Equal organization made by workers
Trade Union ?
Equal organization made by workers
Workers’ organization: protect workers’ rights and interests
Wage, work hours, working environment, welfare, employment, etc.
Capitalists’ organization to maximize profit
Control over workers, production and sales
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15. Trade Union ? Union is human body
Organic body owned by members
Union is human body
union
human
leaders
brain
delegate
artery
Shop
steward
Small
vein
member
body
Both of human and trade union are organic body.
Strong members make strong union
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16. How to run Trade Union ?
Independence from state power (government) and capitalists, but run by members
Democratic centralization: democratic minimum procedure
Member -> line representative -> delegate -> department representative -> branch executive committee -> branch congress -> general assembly of members
Union structure:
Members’ trust -> role sharing -> democratic distribution of power and responsibility -> effectiveness and efficienty
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17. The place where daily life and human relations are made
What is workplace ?
Workers -> the place for the life -> the place for maintain family economy
The place where daily life and human relations are made
The place where the identity of workers and working class is made
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18. Be united into the union!
We are proud of our class of workers.
Let us stand together for the change of world through our union movement.
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19. Introduction of 2017 Collective Bargaining

20. 2017 CBA Struggle Flows March- April May-June July-August
2017 Negotiation Flows
Details
March-
April
Preparation
2017 demand prepared
Congress to decide the 2017 proposal
Meeting with employers
Visits to lines and meetings with members
Hyundai Motor branch exco
Hyundai/Kia Motor branches exco meetings
Shop stewards meeting
Congress delegate meeting
May-June
Focused negotiation
- Presidential Election
- Focused negotiation
- Strike Committee establihshed
Negotiation rallies in different factories
Information and propaganda for members
Mass media and information for the public
Chaebol reform struggle and social reform struggle
July-August
Focused Struggles
- Concentrated struggle
- CBA conclude
Collective actions including strikes
Rallies and demostrations
focused struggle by all members
CBA conclude 20

21. 2017 CBA Struggle Directions and Guidelines
Reduction of working hours (the completion of 2 shifts)
Reform of wage structure (the increase of basic rate and fixed-pay)
Union struggle at Hyundai Motor Group level Job security in Industry 4.0
Union solidarity for the society and community
Struggle Guidelines
Union struggle with all 50,000 members
Members’ participative struggle
Various struggle tactics
Struggle together with KMWU
Committed to KMWU development and sectoral bargaining 21

22. 2017 CBA Demand by Hyundai Motor Branch
Wage increase (KRW 154,883 of basic rate)
Increase performance-based pay (30% of net profit)
The completion of 2 shift system (8-8 hour)
Reinstatement of dismissed workers and the cancelation of damage compensation claim and provisional seizure due to the union activity
Job security in Industry 4.0
Strengthened CSR (solidarity fund) and union participation
Improved Industrial injury insurance
Equal allowances
Increase paid full-time union officers and increased Time-off Fund.
Welfare center for retired workers
Improved promotion system for production workers
More investment in bus production line 22

23. 2017 CBA Joint Demand by Hyundai Motor Group unions
Wage increase (living wage) and improved wage structure
Decent job creation and recruitment of young workers and new investment plan
Joining the KMWU’s central and sectoral bargaining tables
Regularization of precarious workers and reform of supply system by making relevant union-employer joint committees
Union-employer joint investment committee for future mobile industries such as railway, automotive, steels
Establishment of the Social Solidarity Fund 23

24. Main Chapters of CBA of Hyundai Motor Branch
Preambles
Generals
Union activity
Social responsibility and information disclosure
Personnel management (HR)
Job security
Wage
Working hours and holidays and leaves
Gender equality and maternity protection
Occupational health and safety
Company welfare and job/skills training
Collective bargaining
Labor-Management Council
Labor Disputes
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