Annual wage talks in full swing as auto labor unions submit requests

¥3,000 per month?

2.5% per year.

These numbers are pathetic. The workers should strike.

What an obtuse system, pay negotiations are dictated by the auto industry who's unions are controled by government affiliated people. Then it's expected all other industries will follow their lead. The disconnect is palpable. Proof of this pudding is the refusal of other industries to even recognise or action any pay rise, rather a pay slide, citing "global uncertainty". It's a spring time tradition joke on workers who actually have no say at all.