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Recently, some large corporations are starting a new union composed of office workers and research workers.



Reporter Lee Seong-hoon first reports on the background of the recent formation of two unions under one roof in the industrial field, and what are the differences from the existing unions centered on production workers.



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More than half of Hyundai Motor's office/research labor union, launched in April, is the so-called 'MZ generation'.



The union leader is also in his 20s.



The background to the launch is the awareness of the problem that the existing production workers' unions alone cannot fulfill the demand for fair compensation.



[Lee Geon-woo / Hyundai Motors office/research union chairman: There are many arguments for establishing the rationality of the performance-based pay calculation and the fairness of the promotion and promotion procedures. Disclose what the calculation criteria are and ask for improvements... .] The



labor union for production workers is demanding that the retirement age, which is currently 60, be extended to 64, but the office/research union has made normalizing performance pay its top priority.



Some employees in their 20s and 30s even petitioned the Blue House to stop the tyranny of the existing union, which insists only on extending the retirement age at the expense of the future wages of the MZ generation.



We are also sensitive to in-house welfare issues, but when suspicions of unfair support for in-house catering by Hyundai Motor affiliates surfaced, office/research union executives urged us to join the petition.



[Lee Geon-woo / Hyundai Motors office/research union chairman: The starting point was 'the quality of the food service is not very good'. We want to get something of better quality through competitive bidding by breaking the contract... .]



[Seonghee Kim/Professor, Graduate School of Labor, Korea University: It is to play a desirable social role when it becomes a union that has the functions of social solidarity and social justice beyond the image of a union faithful to representing self-interest… .]



In the midst of this, negotiations on wages and collective agreements between Hyundai Motor's labor and management finally broke down without finding a point of contact.



The Hyundai Motor union announced a vote in favor of a general strike on the 7th of this month, increasing the possibility of a strike for the first time in three years.



(Video editing: So Ji-hye, VJ: Jeong Min-goo)



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