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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2016.Automaker unions reduce pay rise demands
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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SenseNotSoCommon
because we're just lowly serfs
Aly Rustom
Really? So just when do you demand pay rises?
Those 2 quotes right there tell you why Japan will NEVER recover economically.
Yes they most certainly do.
some14some
Japan’s automaker labor unions.....
better drop word 'labor' from the above sentence, it is apparent these unions are representing automakers.
BurakuminDes
The best thing these auto workers can do to make a little more (deserved) cash is to cancel their "union" membership immediately. They'd see better returns investing the cash in a ponzi scheme or pachinko than such a worthless, money sapping, crooked "union".
Goodlucktoyou
"the ultimate success of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s aim" so plus ¥3000 a month and minus 10% consumer tax. Which I studied Maths, Abe must be so smart.
JeffLee
Yes you can.
Like that new assemlby plant in Myanmar? "Bigger and better" for Burmese workers but not for the workers back home -- without whom the company wouldn't exist in the first place.
Onniyama
Over a 180 hour work month that works out to about 17 Yen per hour raise. Sweet! Livin in good times. BurakuminDes. Yes, better off getting rid of the union dues.
nakanoguy01
this really is a slap in the face for autoworkers. car manufacturers are making record profits, again, but are too stingy to pass along anything to workers. not only that, but a growing number of autoworkers are "guest-workers" from developing countries who make less money doing the same job. the unions in japan really are worthless.
A.N. Other
ROFL!
SenseNotSoCommon
If this is some fingers-crossed, buttocks-clenched attempt at retaining maximum possible production in Japan, it reflects very poorly on the mood music within TMC.
GW
Big biz has been spouting these lines since the 80s...........oh we don't know if we will reap massive profits again.....blah blah blah.....
Meanwhile higher ups are ca$hing in & the labour gets ^%$# on again & again & again
This is one of the BIG reasons incomes have gotten so horribly unbalanced..... the masses are getting fleeced! And have been for at least 30yrs!
Disillusioned
Awesome! That ¥3,000 would cover lunch for three days a month. I hope they appreciate the kind hearted gesture. How about try stick their pay rise and give everybody free lunch every day although, it is possible they already do.
John-San
The only bonus I can see this that big fat cheque you have in your back pocket Yasuyuki Takaki!
CoconutE3
3000 yen?!? Is that about $27 in today's exchange rate?!!
shonanbb
¥3000...think of all the savings on tobacco. This is wonderful
shonanbb
They cannot pass on the profits, because the profits are being reinvested into bigger and better things for the future of the company to innovate and survive.
Makes sense to me. Getting a ¥3000 monthly increase in base pay is a slap in the face.
nath
xe.com tells me it's $206.688.