A coalition of labor organizations is holding a meeting in order to spread the trend of high-level wage increases that have been spreading through this year's spring labor protests to small and medium-sized enterprises, and plans to further create an environment that makes it easier to raise wages by encouraging price pass-through and other measures. I have confirmed.
This year's spring labor wage response saw a series of high-level wage increase responses, mainly from major companies, and the average wage increase rate of the approximately 2,600 companies that responded by the 2nd of this month was 5.24%, the highest level of over 5% in 33 years. It becomes.
The Rengo held a meeting in Tokyo on the 5th with representatives from each union in an effort to spread this trend to small and medium-sized businesses.
Chairman Yoshino said, ``In order for small and medium-sized enterprises to secure and retain human resources, it is necessary to promote the transfer of labor costs to prices and work to improve wages even more than last year.Towards the realization of improved treatment for all workers. Let's come together as one and fight until the end."
Afterwards, industry-specific labor unions reported on the status of negotiations, and introduced cases where they are interviewing companies to see if they are passing on price appropriately based on the national code of conduct.
Many small and medium-sized enterprises are expected to begin full-fledged negotiations over the next month, and the federation hopes to continue holding meetings in the future to build momentum for wage increases.