Management, labor hold wage, employment discussion

Management, labor hold wage, employment discussion

TOKYO, Japan - Etsuya Washio (L, standing), chief of the eight million-strong Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), delivers a speech at the beginning of a roundtable discussion with the Japan Federation of Employers Associations (Nikkeiren), Japan's largest employers' organization, at a Tokyo hotel Jan. 21. They discussed the upcoming spring wage negotiations, including wage and employment issues.

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