The KCTU Demands in Launching the 1999 Concerted Campaign
Four Primary Demands:
1. End the livelihood-depriving corporate restructuring and lay-off
# adopt a declaration announcing the current policy of
indiscriminate and unilateral corporate restructuring and
redundancy lay-off policy
2. Guarantee employment security through working hour reduction
# legislative amendment to establish 40 hour working week to
retain and create jobs
# employment security through additional reduction in working
hours in collective agreement:
# individual employers are called on to guarantee job security
through labour-management agreement for working hour reduction
* employer shall guarantee normal wage when
working hours is reduced through collective
agreement
* government shall promote employment security
through financial support to supplement the wage
loss in working hour reduction through
collective agreement
* expand employment security support mechanism of
the employment insurance
* establish special employment security fund
3. Establish and consolidate social safety net
# expand the current employment insurance and introduce
unemployment benefit system
# create jobs through expanded public facility investment
# expand government budget for social security spending
# reform and consolidate the 4 social insurances
# elevate the minimum wage system to provide meaningful protection
for the lowest income earners
# enact a Basic Livelihood Protection Act to guarantee minimum
meaningful livelihood for the poorest and most disadvantaged
people
# deepen redistribution of wealth through a through reform of the
taxation system
4. Stabilize wage, collective agreement, and promote industry-level
collective bargaining
# withdraw the plan to repeal the current retirement allowance
system
# withdraw the project to introduce and generalize annual salary
system of wage
# repeal the provision allowing unilateral abrogation of
collective agreement
# introduce provisions for penalty and punishment for violation of
collective agreement
# promote and guarantee industry-level collective bargaining
Continuing Demands:
A. Reform the chaebol system and the political system
# Oust incapable and failed chaebol owner-chiefs from management
and reclaim their ill-gotten wealth
# Punish corrupt chaebol owner-chiefs, politicians, and bureaucrats
# Implement consolidated tax assessment on total interest earnings*
# Introduce employment tax on unearned income gains
# Introduce co-determination law
# Introduce a recall system for corrupt politicians
# Introduce party list proportional reprepresentation voting system
# Stop privatization and overseas sale of public enterprises
B. Guarantee basic labour rights
# Repeal the legislative provision for lay-off on economic grounds
# Release imprisoned trade unionists
# Drop warrants of arrest issued against trade unionists
# Guarantee the right of public servants to unionise
# Guarantee the right of unemployed workers to join supra-
enterprise level unions
# Repeal the legislative provision which makes it illegal and
punishable crime for employers to maintain wage payment to
enterprise-level full-time union officers/representatives
C.Renegotiate the agreement with the IMF and restore economic
sovereignty
# Seek debt cancellation
# Stop the negotiations to adopt investment agreements with the
U.S. and Japan
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