Starting from ‘ the conflict of performance related pay system’… Every critical moment, the company takes a strong line and the situation grows worse.
Strike of Life Insurance Union Allianz Life branch that was started last January with the conflict of performance related pay system became the 208th day on August 17.
It is an unexampled in the history of Allianz Life that had no strike for 47 years and the first strike continues over 200 days.
92 branch managers in strike was dismissed, JE Jong-Kyu the union president and a union member were arrested on suspicion of obstruction of business last May and released on bail recently.
Last month, hoodlums’ violence for the forced removal of strike tents made the relationship worse.
The company conducted ‘aggressive company closure’ only for the union members in the strike for 94 day.
△Dismissal• closure• arrest of union president •the forced removal of striking area•vicious circle of violence= Allianz joint struggle headquarters consisting of Democratic Labor Party, New Progressive Party, and Korean Federation of Clerical & Financial Labor Unions held the ‘Total resolution rally for the victory of strike’ last 14th at Allianz Yeouido head office. Negotiation party- Federation executive and other 9 negotiation members headed for the building lobby for negotiation after the rally.
But the company rejected to negotiate. The person concerned of company said, “ How can we talk with people who exercise the power in trust?” and “ They have to remove the illegal striking container first.” Negotiation party did sit-down demonstration at lobby for 30 minutes and had to fall back.
About the company’s claim of exercising power, most union members of the rally responded that the company with brazen cheek claimed it and it was absurd. According to the union, 30 union members were assaulted by hoodlums of the company in the violent conflict between union and the company last month 28th. Previously last month 26th dawn, 3 union members were assaulted and injured in the forced removal of striking tents. So the Civil Countermeasure Committee for settlement of Allianz Korea Strike accused JUNG Moon-Kuk Allianz President and people concerned with hoodlums of △ the law of act of violence and punishment △ robbery △violation of guard law to south district court on 29th.
Allianz Life conflict started from compulsory introduction of performance related pay and worrying about reconstruction became worse and worse with continuous violent collisions.
△The Department of Labor incited the long-term strike=After 3 months of strike, last April ‘mass dismissals’ of 92 branch managers was the first event to add fuel to the fire.
The company dismissed 99 branch managers last April 1st based on the authoritative interpretation of Seoul Labor Office “ Branch managers are the representatives of company interests, so they are excluded from union members in collective agreement.”
The Department of Labor provided the critical reason to fire branch managers.
Previously March 25th, LEE Young-Hee the minister of labor reported that Allianz branch managers were ‘not qualified to be union members’ Cabinet council.
But the Department of Labor declared the ‘no intervention’ through ‘ The stance of labor department about Allianz Life strike’ on April 23th. And the Department of Labor claimed “ the minister said that branch managers were not qualified to be union members to protect them from disadvantage.” In the event, ‘the concern’ of the Department of Labor caused massive dismissal of branch managers and the relationship between Allianz and union started to be worse.
Decision of the provisional disposition of the company by the south district court of Seoul on May says “although there is an article in the collective agreement to rule out the branch managers from union members, this article is just about the application scope of collective agreement” and “the branch managers joining the union cannot be rejected by this article” and it attracted public attention.
At that time Allianz union welcomed “ This decision confirmed that the administrative interpretation and guideline of Labor Department for performance related pay & branch mangers joining the union was wrong and prejudiced.” JEON Dae-Suk the head of Allianz Struggle Committee rebuked, “the careless judgment and intervention of Labor Department made the strike longer”
△Multinational Corporation Allianz, Where is ethical management? = Allianz is the biggest German nonlife Insurance company and started its business, Allianz Life Korea – the local corporate, in Korea taking over Jeil Life Insurance in 1999 July at the time of economic crisis. Allianz group attracted public attention that it was the M&A of financial corporate without investment of public finance. Completely different with German advanced relations between labor and capital, Allianz in Korea showed its relations.
According to UNI Korea Allianz held the big forum for ethical management and corporate social responsibility recently. Ethical management in Germany and Korea is going to the exact opposite.
LEE Byung-Hoon the professor of ChungAng University said,” The union is struggling but still the laborer power is not strong enough like Germany or Europe and the system is insufficient, so the things observed in Germany are not observed in Korea.” Professor LEE also decried “ Allianz emphasizes the social responsibility and it must not be stopped only in PR.”
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