Workplace Unions in Korea

Koreabridge Discussion
June 17, 2010

A roundtable discussion about possibilities and challenges of establishing workplace unions in Korea.

Participants:

Jung Bong Soo & Gerald Staruilala of Kangnam Labor Law firm
Rob Ouwehand, ATEK Communications Officer
Evan Lloyd, leader of a recently formed hagwon labor union
Jurgen Germeys - CEO at Silk Road Language Center

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Re: Koreabridge Discussion - Workplace Unions in Korea

Organizationally, is every school its own shop, or is there a national organization that would, say, represent teachers in all the schools in a franchise, like YBM or Pagoda?

Re: Koreabridge Discussion - Workplace Unions in Korea

Each workplace is its own shop. In the case of the big chains, they are franchised out so that each individual workplace would have its own union.

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