Noise is arising as a candidate running for the Financial Supervisory Service union chair election filed for an injunction with the court to halt the election process. The candidate's side argues the process is unfair and claims it is invalid.
According to the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) on the 20th, the first hearing in the injunction lawsuit filed by Senior Manager A to suspend the effect of the union chair election against the FSS union is scheduled to be held that day at the Seoul Southern District Court. After the union said in a newsletter on the 16th that voting would proceed as scheduled on the 25th, Senior Manager A asked the court to halt the procedure.
The union says it will proceed with the vote as scheduled under the election announcement on the 4th. In a newsletter, the union said, "Although the resignation of election management committee members makes it difficult to proceed with the election," it "plans to hold the election under the election announcement." Currently, four of the six election management committee members have resigned midterm. The four are said to have resigned to avoid disputes over fairness because they had records of engaging in the same activities as the candidates.
Senior Manager A's side argues it is a "self-election" in which the union leadership created the process and the leadership ran in it. In particular, they contend the election process proceeded without a quorum because there were only two election management committee members. They also say there was no election management committee to review objections.
On the 17th, Senior Manager A issued a statement in the candidate's own name, saying, "An election in which a candidate who was a full-time staffer until the registration deadline and fellow full-time executives who helped ghostwrite the election rules moved as one has lost fairness," and argued, "The leadership designed the rules, and a leadership member ran to inherit vested interests."
Senior Manager A's side argued that allowing campaign activities only after receiving a candidate registration certificate, and restricting office campaigning to "greeting at the department entrance only during lunch and after work," are toxic clauses not found in formal regulations. Senior Manager A's side demanded that these guidelines be canceled and that the identity of the person who drafted them and the minutes detailing the process by which they were approved be disclosed.