The percentage of people working at companies who are members of a labor union is estimated to be 16.5% as of June this year, which is 0.4 points lower than the previous year and the lowest ever.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of people working in companies as of June this year was 60.48 million, an increase of 680,000 from the previous year, while the number of people who are members of labor unions is 9.992 million and 86,000. It has been reduced.
As a result, the union rate, which indicates the percentage of people who are members of labor unions, was estimated at 16.5%.
It was 0.4 points lower than the previous year and the lowest ever.
The unionization rate for women is estimated to have decreased by 0.3 percentage points to 12.5%, while the unionization rate for part-time workers has increased by 0.1 percentage points to an estimated 8.5%.
The number of union members by major organization is as follows: ▽ "Rengo" has 6,952,000 (minus
39,000 ), ▽ "Kankin Workers' Union" has 1,999,000
(minus 18,000),
▽ "Zenroren" has 70 .
2,000 people (minus 22,000 people) and so on.
The unionization rate has been on a downward trend for a long time, falling from 25.9% in 1989 to about 9 percentage points over the past 30 years.
Regarding the results of this time, the RENGO said, ``We must have a strong sense of crisis that the number of workers who are not protected by unions is increasing.