Industrial conflicts at the Chunghwa Telecom:A Trade Union's Perspective
| Autor: | Ching-chi Shen, 沈景旗 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 96 The purpose of this study is to understand what drove to industrial conflicts at the state-own enterprise, Chunghua Telecom, in Taiwan in recent years? I used three methods to explore them, namely literature analysis, a case study and a historical approach. After intensive literature reviews, an analytical framework for analyzing industrial conflicts was formed. It includes five aspects: a proper political-economical context, discontent or the cognition of injustice, the formation of resistance group, intensifying and triggering factor, and leaders and agitators. The factors driving industrial conflicts at the Chunghwa Telecom show below: Firstly, due to the political-economic change, the Taiwanese government actively released the Chunghwa Telecom’s stocks to the public. The workers were worry about the change of working conditions and the possibility of job losses. Secondly, despite of the resolutions and the decisions from the Legislative Yuan resolutions and the Control Yuan respectively, the employer took a tough stand against signing the collective agreement with the trade union. The workers were discontent with the employer’s hard attitudes toward privatization and eventually liberalized their cognition of injustice, Thirdly, the workers of the Chunghwa Telecom led by trade union carried on resistances against the employer. Forthly,the direct factors of their industrial conflicts were: the Taiwanese government was keen to reduce the Chunghwa Telecom stockholder''s rights and privatize the company and the employer was reluctant to enter into a collective agreement with the trade union. There were also three aspects intensifying industrial conflicts: The strong encouragement of the trade union and the hard attitudes of the employers, and trade union’s determination to go on strike. Fifthly, the head office of the Chunghwa Telecom Workers’ Union and its branches led union officials to resist the employer’s privatization. The trade union organizers played a leading and the agitating role in the industrial conflicts. Its function shows as follows: liberalization of injustice, awaking worker’s consciousness and enhancing worker’s solidarity, the leading role of opposition and collective bargaining, the use of the mass media’s strength, political lobby, and wining a support from international trade unions. |
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