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Collective Negotiations For Informal Workers
Experiences:
Enforcing Agreements
Korean Street Vendor’s Confederation, KOSC, Collective Bargaining Strategy
The Korean Street Vendors’ Confederation, KOSC, has developed a bargaining strategy that includes enforcing
of agreements.
First: negotiate the demand that municipalities stop employing crackdown parties or
gangsters to crack down on street vendors, and that they should abolish bad laws on eviction.
Second: democratic decision making systems and procedures are necessary. If the negotiating
committee is operating against our will, we should decide whether or not to participate.
Third: the committee should not be partial towards governments or municipalities. It should
guarantee to hear the opinions of street vendors themselves. And it should have power to
make a decision and act.
Fourth: if we make an agreement, municipalities or street vendors should carry it out.
Finally: whenever the municipalities try to avoid carrying out agreements, we should
organise struggles and act on the offensive to achieve our demands.
(Presented by KOSC, StreetNet Meeting, Senegal, 2007- edited)
TIP: Three golden rules in any negotiation:
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•• Never negotiate alone
•• Never make a deal without agreement of members.
•• Maintain unity while negotiating
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