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| ▲ On the 24th, Elect Yang Gyeong-soo received the election certificate from the KCTU. (Center in the photo) | |
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“The struggle will open a new era.”
Yang Gyeong-soo, head of the Gyeonggi Confederation of Trade Unions, who was the first non-regular worker and was elected as the youngest chairman of the National Federation of Democratic Trade Unions (CTU) in a straight line system, made a statement on the election at the dawn of the 24th.
In his inauguration Ilseong, “Million members gave us a strict order to’fight without hesitation and open a new era’,” and said, “We will not go against the will,” he predicted a tough struggle.
At the same time, both elected people said, “For the first time in history, we will see the 1st Confederation of Trade Unions organizing a’prepared general strike.” “I emphasized.
Even toward the political and business world, the elect, saying, “The government and capital will face an’unfamiliar era’,” he warned against forgetting all of the past practices, institutions, and memories. The KCTU came to serve only workers as masters. It must be noted that the labor movement has come to take the struggle as its root.”
On the 24th, the KCTU Central Election Management Committee announced on the 24th that in the 3rd straight line election, candidate Yang Gyeong-soo, senior vice chairman Yoon Tae-geun, and secretary general Jeon Jong-deok were elected.
Candidate Gyeong-soo Yang was elected as the new executive team by winning 275,413 votes (55.68%) out of the total number of votes 531,158 in the final voting held from the 17th to the 23rd. These tenth-term leadership will begin their three-year term from January 2021.
On the other hand, candidate Kim Sang-koo, who showed a distinctive appearance from both candidates by emphasizing’social dialogue’, received 228,000,786 votes and recorded 44.32% of the votes.
Birth of the first non-regular worker and the youngest straight-line chairperson
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| ▲ Yang Gyeong-soo, head of the Gyeonggi Headquarters, elected as the chairman of the KCTU. | |
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Yang, a native of Gochang, Jeollabuk-do in 1976, became a temporary worker at Kia Motors in 2007. From 2012 to 2016, he served as Kia Motors’ internal subcontracting chairman. During this period, the two elected people shouted’Illegal dispatch regular directing’, and for 363 days, the National Human Rights Commission had a high level of concentration and 23 days of fasting. As a result, it led to the conversion of over 1,000 illegally dispatched workers to regular workers, but I was also subjected to 580 million won worth of seizure. Elect Yang has served as the head of the Gyeonggi Headquarters of the KCTU since 2017.
The biggest issue was whether or not to continue social dialogue with the government from the beginning of this election for the chairman of the KCTU.
Former Chairman Kim Myung-Hwan participated in the tripartite dialogue on the grounds of overcoming Corona 19, but when the agenda for participation in social dialogue was rejected at the Democratic Confederation of Trade Unions Congress, “the direction that the KCTU has followed was not just for the 1 million KCTU.” , I look forward to becoming a KCTU that presents a new agenda”, and voluntarily resigned on July 24th.
From the beginning, the elected person has focused on the’struggle’ that is completely different from that of Chairman Kim Myung-hwan and has been conducting an election campaign.
A representative example is the declaration of a total strike of 1 million on November 3, 2021, and both elected persons ▲ applying the Labor Standards Act to workplaces with fewer than 5 employees ▲ Recognizing workers under the Labor Union Act for special employment, indirect employment, and freelancers ▲ Taeil Jeon He announced that he would continue the struggle for the victory of the third law.
In fact, at the end of the election, both elected people said, “Workers will see the badge (insignia) of the KCTU again.” I promise,” he once again emphasized his clear will to fight.
On the morning of the 24th, the KCTU presented election certificates to Yang Gyeong-soo, senior vice chairman Yun Taek-geun, and secretary-general Jeon Jong-deok. The term of office for the three is three years from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023.
Meanwhile, in the final voting at the Seoul Regional Headquarters of the KCTU, Candidate Jin-eok Kim, No. 1, was elected head of the headquarters, overtaking No. 2 Choi Eun-cheol. Candidate Jin-eok Kim beat Candidate Eun-cheol Choi, who obtained 51,154 votes (54.74%) out of 97,208 total votes, and won 42,292 votes (45.26%) by 8862 votes.