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government has announced that it will promote a plan to directly look into the financial management of labor unions.
It is said that the people should know if the finances of the giant unions are operated transparently, but labor groups including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions immediately objected.
This is reporter Han Sang-woo.
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[Park Jeong-ha/Chief Spokesperson for People's Power: Sunlight shines properly on union activities.
light.
When you say you need to let people know...
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The government's plan to monitor the accounting operation of the giant union was known to the outside world yesterday (18th) through the remarks of Prime Minister Han Deok-soo at the high-ranking party and government council.
It was aimed at the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, and it is a statement based on the perception that accounting operations are opaque while spending 20 billion won a year on the headquarters budget alone.
According to the current labor union law, unions must have internal audit committee members, conduct self-audits at least twice a year, and disclose the results to union members.
The government may require the results of these audits.
The government argues that transparency cannot be guaranteed because audit committee members are placed internally rather than externally, and only the final audit results are disclosed without specific usage and expenditure items.
Under the current law, the direct involvement of the government is not possible, so the labor union law needs to be revised, but the government is in a position to push forward even by revising the law.
The two unions protested, saying, "It is an anti-labor idea that violates the union's sovereignty and the right to organize guaranteed by the Constitution."
[Han Sang-jin / KCTU Spokesperson: The life of a labor union is independence.
We are against this because we foresee an infringement on this autonomy.] The
United States and the United Kingdom enforce union accounting reporting obligations to the government, but Germany and France, on the contrary, maintain the line of strengthening the audit function of the union itself, there is.
Since the opposition party and the labor world are pointing out that the government's labor policy is hardline after responding to the cargo union strike, pain seems inevitable even if the legislation is pushed forward.
(Video coverage: Choi Dae-woong, video editing: Lee Jae-seong)