Labor - Management Relations

2003
May

  • Revised Commercial Code Introduces U.S.-style Corporate Governance (PDF 101KB) pdficon
  • Rengo Moves toward Organizing Community Unions (PDF 101KB) pdficon
  • Spring Labor-Management Wage Talks Reach a Turning Point (PDF 101KB) pdficon
    • Mar

  • Unionization Rate Drops to Record Low 20.2 Percent (PDF 149KB) pdficon
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    2002
    Dec

  • Newly-formed UI Zensen Domei Becomes Largest Industrywide Union (PDF 185KB) pdficon
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    Sep

  • Many Young Union Members Not Interested in Leading Position (PDF 209KB) pdficon
  • Rengo Will No Longer Set Basic Pay Raise (PDF 209KB) pdficon
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    Aug

  • Denki Rengo Eyes Negotiating Wages According to Job (PDF 198KB) pdficon
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    Jun

  • Basic Agreement on Work-sharing Reached (PDF 179KB) pdficon
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    May

  • 2002 Spring Offensive: Main Negotiating Points and Results (PDF 186KB) pdficon
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    Apr

  • Jichiro Releases Final Report on Series of Scandals (PDF 196KB) pdficon
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    Mar

  • Unionization Rate in 2001 Falls to 20.7 Percent
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    Feb

  • New Employers’ Association, JBF, Inaugurated through Unification of Keidanren and Nikkeiren
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    Jan

  • Adopting Work-sharing: Agreement between Nikkeiren and Rengo
  • Influential Industrial Unions No Longer Demand Basic Pay Raise
    • 2001
    Dec

  • Rengo's New Leadership Vows to Expand Organizing Efforts
    • Oct

  • Labor Unions Adjust to Changes in the Labor Market
  • Service and Distribution Federation Formed
    • Sep

  • Retrospective and Perspective of 2001 Spring Offensive Negotiations
    • Aug

  • Increased Participants?: Rengo Holds May Day in April
    • Jun

  • Industrywide Organizations of Labor Unions in the 1990s: Reform and Stagnation
    • Apr

  • The 2001 Spring Offensive Starts
    • Mar

  • Unionization Rate Drops to 21.5 Percent —Results of the Basic Survey on Trade Unions in 2000
    • Jan

  • Survey of Care Workers
    • 2000
    Dec

  • Rengo Starts Job-placement and Worker-dispatching Businesses
    • Oct

  • Reshuffling of Industry-based Unions
    • Sep

  • The 2000 Spring Offensive
    • Jun

  • 2000 Spring Offensive: Signs of Change
    • May

  • Organizing Care Workers
    • Apr

  • 2000 Spring Offensive and the Employment Crisis
    • Mar

  • Unionization Rate at a Record Low of 22.2 Percent
    • Jan

  • Employment Issues at the Fore on Rengo's 10th Anniversary
  • Nissan's Restructuring Plan and the Union's Response
    • 1999
    Dec

  • Zensen-domei Forms a Union for Non-employees and Former Employees
  • New Labor Union Federation in Metal, Machinery and Manufacturing: Toward Unifying Japan's Industry-based Federations
    • Oct

  • Work-Sharing
    • Sep

  • 1999 Spring Offensive: Lowest Pay Hike on Record
    • Aug

  • Rengo's Action Plan to Promote Equal Participation by Men and Women
    • Jun

  • '99 Spring Offensive: Lowest Increase on Record
    • Apr

  • Labor and Management Move into '99 Spring Wage Offensive
    • Mar

  • Estimated Unionization Rate Down to 22.4 Percent - Preliminary Report of the 1998 Basic Survey on Trade Unions
    • Feb

  • Rengo Decides upon Policy for 1999 Spring Wage Offensive - One Percent Wage Increase Demand -
    • Jan

  • Electronics Giants Settle on Bonus Payments and Gap Widens Between Firms
    • 1998
    Dec

  • Zensen-Domei Draws Up Guidelines for Preventing Sexual Harassment
  • The Increasing Number of Unified Industrial Labor Organizations
    - Ongoing Unification to Strengthen the Organizational Base of the Union Movement -
    • Sep

  • Record-low Wage Increases in the 1998 Shunto
    • Aug

  • Unions Prefer Joint Consultation to Collective Bargaining
    • Jul

  • ANA Strike -- Wage System Talks Break Down
    • May

  • The 1998 Spring Offensive
    • Apr

  • Unionization Rate Drops to 22.6 Percent: The Difficulty of Organizing Non-Regular Employees
    • Feb

  • Rengo Seeks a ¥15,000 Wage Hike from the 1998 Spring Wage Offensive
    • Jan

  • Discrepancy Observed in Bonus Offers in Electronics
  • Downsizing Dampens Union Finances
    • 1997
    Dec

  • Washio Appointed New Rengo Chief
    • Sep

  • Tekko Roren Shifting to Multiple-Year Agreements
  • 1997 Shunto Wage Talks Settled with Greater Emphasis on Bonuses
    • Jul

  • Collective Agreements Concluded by 89.2 Percent of Labor Unions
    • May

  • Private Railway Unions Shift from Central Collective Negotiations to Separate Wage Talks
    - Characteristic of 1997 Spring Wage Talks -
    • Mar

  • Basic Survey on Trade Unions
    • Feb

  • Rengo Seeking ¥13,000 Wage-Hike in 1997 Shunto
    • Jan

  • Corporations without Unions Decide on Working Conditions: JIL Survey
  • Mitsui Kinzoku Labor Union OKs Scraping Pay Hike Negotiations
    • 1996
    Dec

  • Unification of Industrial Labor Organizations - Reorganization of Industrial Labor Unions
    • Nov

  • Lowest Regional Minimum Wage Increase at 2.1% -Central Minimum Wage Council Recommends-
    • Sep

  • An Overview of the Final Results of Shunto Wage Talks
  • Scrap Protective Provisions for Women:Rengo Central Committee Calls for Strengthening of Equal Employment
  • New Action Policy of Tekko-roren and Denki Rengo
    • Jul

  • An Interim Report of a Survey on Next-Generation Union Leaders
    • Apr

  • Shunto - Labor and Management Stances in Wage-Hike Talks
    • Mar

  • Unionization Rate Drops to 23.8%
  • Nikkeiren Sets Plans for Shunto
    • Feb

  • 1996 Shunto;Rengo Seeks 13,000yen Wage-Hike
    • Jan

  • Trends in Year-end Allowance Negotiations
    • 1995
    Dec

  • Rengo's 4th Annual Convention
    • Oct

  • Nikkyoso's Rapprochement with Ministry of Education
    • Sep

  • 1995 Shunto Wage Talks Settled - Final Reports by Ministry of Labour, Nikkeiren and Rengo
    • Aug

  • Issue of Fire Fighters' Right to Organize Largely Settled --MHA and Jichiro Chief Agree
    • Jul

  • A 1994 Survey on Labor-Management Communication
  • Rengo Releases Survey on Employment Check
    • May

  • The Dismal 1995 Shunto
    • Apr

  • 1995 Shunto Wage - Hike Requests Presented
    • Jan

  • 1995 Shunto Coming Up - Labor Decide Upon Wage - Hike Target
    • 1994
    Nov

  • Rengo Chief Yamagishi Steps Down
    • Sep

  • 1994 "Shunto" Wage Talks Settled
    • May

  • Union for Middle Management
    • Apr

  • Policy for 1994 Shunto Presented
    • Mar

  • Basic Survey on Trade Unions
    • Feb

  • Spring Wage - Hike Requests
    • Jan

  • Labor & Management call for Income Tax Cuts
    • 1993
    Dec

  • Rengo Annual Convention Held
    • Nov

  • Yamagishi Re-elected as Rengo Chief
    • Oct

  • Subcontractors and Working Hours: Denkirengo's Survey
    • Sep

  • General Election Results & Labor Unions; Flexible Political Support Relations
    • Jun

  • Labor Unions Striking Less
    • May

  • 1993 Shunto Passes Climax; Lowest Wage Increase since 1987 and Delay in Shortening of Hours
    • Apr

  • 1993 Sunto; Labor and Management Negotiate
  • Image of Labor Unions, "old-fashioned and Conservative"; Rengosoken Survey of Unionists Awareness
    • Mar

  • Labor Unions Toss Boss Out of office
  • Chusho Liason Joint Struggle Council
    • Feb

  • JR West Goes on Strike
  • 1992 Basic Survey on Trade Unions; Unionization Rate Continues to Drop Slightly
    • Jan

  • Labor and Management Gear Up for 1993 Shunto
    • 1992
    Nov

  • Labor Unions Searching for New Political Policy; Debate over "New Party" Suddenly Emerging after Upper House Election
    • Oct

  • Relations between Labor Unions and Political Parties; Rengo Candidates Suffer Crushing Defeat in the Upper House Election
    • Jun

  • Shunto Interim Report
  • 80,000 Nurses Go on Strike
    • May

  • 1992 Shunto Peaks - Wage Hikes are Extremely Unsatisfactory, Unions Say
    • Apr

  • Important Issues for 1992 Shunto
    • Mar

  • Unionization Rate Hits Record-Low
    • Feb

  • Wage Demands for 1992 Shunto
  • Labor Unions Tackling Issue of Foreign Workers' Human Rights-
    • Jan

  • Rengo Decides on Action Policy for 1992-93

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