Lopsided inclusion: The impact of multi‐employer bargaining and class‐based unionism on non‐regular employment in South Korea
利用韩国全国代表性调查数据，研究发现多雇主谈判增加了工会为非正规工人争取加薪的可能性，但这一效应在临时工和分包工中弱于直接雇佣的固定期限工人，且取决于工会所属的全国性联合会是阶级导向还是商业导向。
Abstract This study examines the impact of multi‐employer bargaining on non‐regular workers across different unions and types of non‐regular employment. Using national representative survey data from South Korea, I find that multi‐employer bargaining increases the likelihood that a workplace union would address a pay increase for non‐regular workers when the union was affiliated with a confederation espousing class‐based as opposed to business‐unionism. However, such a relationship was weaker for temporary agency workers and subcontractors than for direct‐hire fixed‐term workers. This mechanism is further illustrated through a second round of data collection and analysis, namely in‐depth interviews. I identify two factors that characterize the class‐based confederation: (1) centralized pressure from the union and (2) activists and their identity work. Altogether, these results further an understanding of how the identities of national union confederations can influence local representatives’ approach to representing non‐regular workers and how those influences are manifested through workplace‐level collective bargaining.