Today’s Business Japanese is “Rengou”.
You may often hear this word recently because of it is time for “Shuntou” now.
The official name is “Japan Trade Union Confederation” and was established in 1989. The current number of memebrs is about 7 mil.
Their mission is to discuss and negotiate in order to improve the treatment and payment of Japanese labor.
Ms. Yoshino was elected as the first female chairperson of “Rengou”.
However, one of the main causes why Japanese wages has not increases for the past 30 years is told to be lies in “Rengou”.
40-50 years ago “Kokutetsu (Japanese National Railways)” often did strikes, but no company do strikes these years.
As a result, collective bargaining power of labor has weaken and “Rengou” could not make the labor treatment better.
If trains and airplanes stop, many people suffer from it, but not to do strikes has such kind of aspect, too.
