The minimum wage for high school graduates is 66 million yuan,

Starting point of the Samsung Samsung Busan factory in Kyeong-dong, Gangseo-gu, Busan. [중앙포토]

Renault Samsung Motors and the workers will sit again at 12 noon on the 12th to engage in wage and collective bargaining (collective bargaining) last year. To overcome the situation that had prevailed for 8 months since the first meeting last June. Renault Samsung Motors is the only one of the five domestic manufacturers not to have finalized the transaction last year.

That's the negotiation of Renault Samsung Motors. Renault Samsung Motors will enter into contracts for Nissan Motors' sport utility vehicle (SUV) production produced at its Busan site in September. The production of Nissan export vehicles logs in North America (100 745 units) accounted for half of the total production (225 757 units) of the Renault Samsung Busan plant (47.1%). If the next batch is not allocated, half of the Busan factory can stop. The vice president of the Rothmosser Nicko Group's supply chain manufacturing and management division sent a video message to workers at the Busan plant, Renault Samsung Motors, calling for an end to the strike. Renault Samsung Motors said: "Assuming the following log volume is exhausted, the Busan plant theoretically requires about 900 reductions in labor."

As negotiations progressed unexpectedly, the Renault Samsung Motors Corporation (the union) workers' union renewed the record for the longest strike of all time. The union made 30 strikes (112 hours) at the Busan factory from last October to March 30. I checked the position of both sides who were facing a fact check.

The Renault Samsung Motors union says: "Even though I work for 8 years in a Busan factory, the base salary is only 13.3 million won." However, the company says, "The average income is 80 million won."

Each presented a different number, but both arguments are based on facts. In 2017, the highest income among Busan factory production workers was 111 million won and the lowest income was 66 million won.

Renault Samsung factory in Busan. [사진 르노삼성]

The "8-year-old workers" mentioned by the unions actually have a base salary of 1.3 million won per month. However, taking into account the basic rate allowance, such as the personal development cost, the effective basic monthly salary is 1.95 million won. Given the performance bonuses, the actual income of blue-collar workers in their thirties who joined the company as new high school graduates eight years ago is W 66 million. In other words, among the 1743 workers at the Renault Samsung Motors Busan factory, the least paid person received an average monthly salary of 5.5 million won (before taxes).

In relation to this, the company calculated the average annual salary by dividing the total salary expenses such as salaries and social charges by the number of workers in the Busan factory. The average salary in 2017 is 78 million won. Given the average wage growth rate (estimated at 4%), the minimum wage for blue-collar workers last year is estimated at about 81.12 million won (taking into account the retirement salary after the tax breaks).

Renault Samsung Busan factory production line

In the negotiations for the merger, the company proposed "an average increase of 14 million won over the annual salary in 2017", but the union interprets it as "giving only 3 million won".

The company will pay the bonus (3 million won) and compensation money (1 million won) as a fixed amount, while the productivity incentive (PI) and distribution of surplus profits (PS) are also considered an increase. PI is the amount paid by workers and management in accordance with the agreed profit targets. If you reach 100% of your annual profit target, you get 400% of the base salary, and if you do not reach your goal at all (0%), you get 200%. The PI private payment plan is 350% of base salary. Employees whose base salary is 2 million won receive 7 million won.

Renault Samsung factory in Busan. Busan = Yoon Jung Min reporter

In addition, Renault Samsung Motors distributes 5% of its pre-tax profit every year to all employees. This is called PS. The PS · PI is at least 10 million won.

However, the union clbadifies the double incentive award as "virtually any increase". "PS and PI are separate from wage negotiations, and if the base salary is increased, the salary increases and the compensation (one million won) is increased." Therefore, the union is asking for base salary (100,667 won per month), personal development cost (20,113 won per month) and an incentive allowance (3 million won + 250% of base salary). ).

Renault Samsung Motors said: "National automakers only offer PI at Renault Samsung Motors." In 2017, we have already raised the national automobile base rate to the maximum level (62,400 won per month) Position

The union estimates that the absolute wage level represents only 85% of Hyundai's salary (92 million won · 2017), and that the Busan factory is highly productive and can potentially raise wages. In fact, the Renault Samsung Motors Busan factory produces 66 cars per hour (as of 2017). This means that workers make 1.1 cars in less than a minute. The company has increased its efficiency by 40% compared to 2012 (47 units).

On the other hand, the company said: "It is true that the level of absolute productivity is high, but the comparison target is wrong." The number of cars produced per hour varies considerably depending on the production model, the type of car and the method. In addition, it would be more efficient to create 60 cars at the time than 1,500 people making 66 cars at the hour.

The company says: "The Busan plant is comparable to the Kyushu plant in Japan". This is the only factory producing the same car (Nissan Chrysler). The Japanese factory produces logs for domestic use and the Busan plant logs for export to North America. The production input time (1.99) compared to the Busan factory's standard time is 5% lower than that of the Kyushu factory (1.90). This indicator means that the closer the efficiency is to 1, the greater the efficiency of production.

If you increase the fixed rate requested by the union, the index will exceed 2.00. The company fears that it will not be able to obtain Nissan's tracking volume. The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance uses this index to compare the specific efficiencies of factories when allocating new production vehicles.
Moon Hee-cheol [email protected]