FKTU

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FKTUFederation of Korean Trade Unions
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Participants from Seoul will include Kim Ju-young and Kim Myoung-hwan, the respective heads of the FKTU and KCTU, the officials said.
Two Koreas labour unions to hold talks on exchanges
A month-long general strike led by two competing labor federations--the cooperative FKTU and the militant KCTU--forced the Kim government to reluctantly consent to the revision of the reform legislation in February 1997.
The diverging political pathways of labor market reform in Japan and Korea
"We, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions, are here to defend the labour unions and labour movement in this land," said Kang Choong-ho, a spokesman for FKTU.
S Koreans rally against labour law
There were many instances of male-dominated FKTU affiliated unions being on the side of management when the firms were in dispute with the female workers (WCC 1987: 108).
The dynamic evolution of urban industrial mission in Korea
The AFL-CIO, despite its pledge never to support government-controlled unions, financed and supported the FKTU from 1971 until the late 1980s--with full knowledge of the government's penetration of the FKTU.
Labor's cold war: freshly unearthed documents may force the AFL-CIO to face up to past betrayals. (Articles)
General Park's 1961 "Plan for the Reorganization of Labor Groups" purged and reorganized the FKTU as a puppet organization to "work toward national security by eliminating all pro-communist and counterrevolutionary elements and establish a system of unified industrial unionism to overcome organizational disorder and to prevent undisciplined labor disputes." The Park regime achieved a true regimentation of labor, especially after adopting the authoritarian Yushin constitution of 1971 (Gumings 1997:367-77).
ORGANIZED LABOR'S IMAGES OF MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE: DIVERGENT FOREIGN INVESTMENT IDEOLOGIES IN ARGENTINA, SOUTH KOREA, AND SPAIN
In 1995, with a platform to build not only democratic labor movements but also "a truly democratic society," Korean workers finally founded the historically unprecedented KCTU in opposition to the FKTU. For the first time, Korea had an independent trade union federation.
The "late blooming" of the South Korean labor movement
These actions prompted the FKTU to threaten to join the general strike in an alliance with the KCTU.
Democracy on trial: South Korean workers resist labor law deform
But it failed to bring about significant change due to fierce opposition from the KCTU and the FKTU, which staged the first and the biggest general strike in Korean history.
Corporate unionism and labor market flexibility in South Korea
(4.) Ho Keun Song, Company Welfare in Korea: An Empirical Study (Seoul: FKTU, 1996) (in Korean).
The birth of a welfare state in Korea: the unfinished symphony of democratization and globalization
Among the nine workers' representatives five are from the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU) and four from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU).
The government nearing deadline to set minimum wage
According to local media, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU) sent guidelines to its branches to obtain compensation for diverse allowances expected to be cut.
Companies make plans for reduced working hours
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