This thesis considers the following three subjects. First, What bases make can strikers conduct a 'sit-down strike' by taking over and holding the management building, when dispute acts are ongoing. While seizing the management building seems unlawful...
This thesis considers the following three subjects. First, What bases make can strikers conduct a 'sit-down strike' by taking over and holding the management building, when dispute acts are ongoing. While seizing the management building seems unlawful and unjustifiable to the Criminal and Civil law. It is not unusual to occupy a management building or conduct a partial take over in our country. This paper considers why holding a business building is allowed, while most of these actions are illegal overseas.
Second, if it is legitimate to seize the management building, what is the limit. Seizing the business building is an aggressive, contrived action which may be judged as not only disobeying the contract, but also violating the management's right. Though sit-down strike is an action of strike leads to conflict of the labor's right to strike and management's property, it is lawful within the bounds of coordination. To interfere with the right to carry on business -be it called property- without just cause is unlawful. Property is not fully denied or excluded when guaranteed the right to strike, subject of lawful for the holding a business building as a strike is needed to consider the standpoint of the theory of coordination.
Third, is it lawful for the labor to seize the buildings after the manage-
ment has locked out. For this, examines the effect of requesting the employees to retreat from the company premises when locked out by the management in the first place. Case law of Court says if a lockout of the building is carried out, strikers have to leave the building since the right for control over the properties is fully recovered. But other theories have other opinions. This paper examines views of cases that denies the lawfulness of the continuous seizing of the building after the lockout as well as the opposition theories, and considers the opposing theories from a critical view point.
Therefore, the limits or extent of lawful for seize of the management building is regarded as a matter of coordination of the mutual relations of the rights between the right to strike and property or the right of managing properties. In conclusion, action that causes physical obstruction against the employee or staff's coming in and out to the building, action of seizing most or important parts of the building, action of traversing and making noise during a sit-down strike while occupying part of the building, preventing from other employee to work, are not admitted to be a lawful action. However it is admitted to be lawful in the case of a coexisting and partial occupation that does not exclude the occupancy of the management and does not disturb employee or staff's working in accordance to the theory of coordination.