United Future Party Faces Controversy Over Refusal to Continue Employment of 'Saebosu Party' Members... Merger Conflicts Persist

Former Saebosu Party Official "Waited for Assignment but Faced Voluntary Retirement"
Condemnation Statement... Request Letter for Personnel Order Delivered to Representative Hwang Kyo-an

Former Saebosu Party officials are delivering a 'Personnel Order Request' to Hwang Kyo-ahn, the leader of the Future United Party, who is attending the Supreme Council meeting on the 16th, demanding employment succession. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hye-min] The United Future Party is embroiled in conflict over the employment succession of party officials from the New Conservative Party.

Since the merger, party officials from the Liberty Korea Party have continued their existing duties, while those from the New Conservative Party have not received assignments for about a month and were recently urged to take voluntary retirement, facing the risk of losing their jobs.

About 10 party officials from the New Conservative Party protested this on the morning of the 16th in front of the party's Supreme Council meeting room and handed a personnel order request to Representative Hwang Kyo-ahn as he entered the meeting room.

They criticized, "Since the inauguration ceremony on the 17th of last month, we have been waiting for personnel orders and department assignments according to the Political Parties Act, but after four weeks, we were urged to take voluntary retirement by the General Affairs Bureau without any explanation," adding, "The only reason given was that it was difficult to work together due to the labor union atmosphere."

They requested a meeting with Representative Hwang, stating, "We are regular full-time party officials with properly signed labor contracts. We cannot lose the rights of politicians and workers overnight due to factionalism or selfishness without any reason."

Assemblyman Oh Shin-hwan, also from the New Conservative Party and present at the scene, expressed frustration toward Representative Hwang and the leadership, saying, "There was an agreement with Secretary-General Park Wan-soo, so why is employment not being succeeded?" and added, "The party is not trying to deceive anyone; isn't this going too far?"

Later, Assemblyman Oh told reporters, "Legally, no one can exclude anyone else. In line with the spirit of integration, all employment should be succeeded, and restructuring should be addressed afterward. If some are accepted and others are not in this way, then why did we even merge?"

He emphasized, "Secretary-General Park and I discussed reducing the number of New Conservative Party officials from over 30 to fewer than 20, and we brought it down to 19. One resigned in the meantime, leaving 18. At the time of the merger, we already transferred all New Conservative Party assets. If we had operated independently, we could have paid all staff salaries with that money."

The smooth succession of party official employment was the only condition mentioned by Assemblyman Yoo Seung-min when he announced his decision not to run in the general election and his intention to pursue a new merger.

On the other hand, the labor union of the United Future Party's party office, mostly composed of former Liberty Korea Party members, opposes the employment succession of New Conservative Party officials. They issued a statement the day before, referring to the New Conservative Party officials as "volunteers," declaring, "We have already announced the final and irreversible conclusion, and there will be no further discussions."

The United Future Party labor union added, "In support of the party leader's integration decision, we have already accepted contracts for some volunteers," and said, "Many party office officials still strongly oppose this."

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