This year's spring labor strikes have been quickly settled with high wage increases at major companies, but a coalition of labor organizations gave a speech in downtown Tokyo on the 1st, calling for high wage increases to spread to small and medium-sized enterprises. emphasized its importance.
This year's spring labor union will have a concentrated response date on March 13th, but there have already been a number of cases in which large companies have settled early on with high wage increases, and the momentum toward wage increases is growing more than usual.
The Rengo gave a speech in Yurakucho, Tokyo on the evening of the 1st, in an effort to further accelerate the movement towards wage increases.
At the meeting, Chairman Yoshino called out, ``The key to this year is how much small and medium-sized businesses can raise wages.Let's unite and work hard to change the stage.'' .
The coalition is calling for a wage increase of more than 5%, including regular wage increases, over last year's level, which was the highest level in about 30 years.
In the future, the focus will be on whether sustainable wage increases can be spread to small and medium-sized enterprises and non-regular workers.
One participant, a man in his 30s working at a postal service company, said, ``Rising prices are making it difficult for young people to live, so I would like to see a wage increase for many people.''
A man in his 50s from a labor union in the metal industry said, ``While major companies have been raising wages, small and medium-sized enterprises where many people work have not yet been able to do so, so I would like to see improvements made in that area.'' We were talking.