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Date of intensive response to the Spring Struggle 2025

Date of intensive response to the Spring Struggle 2025

Day of Intensive Responses to the Spring Struggle for 2025. Photo shows Akihiro Kaneko, chairman of the Metalworkers' Union of Japan.=March 12,2025,Tokyo

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Date of intensive response to the Spring Struggle 2025

Date of intensive response to the Spring Struggle 2025

Intensive response day for the Spring Struggle 2025. Photo shows the status of responses being filled in on the whiteboard of the Metalworkers' Association of Japan.=March 12,2025,Tokyo

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Date of intensive response to the Spring Struggle 2025

Date of intensive response to the Spring Struggle 2025

Intensive response day for the Spring Struggle 2025. Photo shows the status of responses being filled in on the whiteboard of the Metalworkers' Association of Japan.=March 12,2025,Tokyo

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Date of intensive response to the Spring Struggle 2025

Date of intensive response to the Spring Struggle 2025

The day of the intensive response to the Spring Struggle 2025. Photo shows Akihiro Kaneko, chairman of the Metalworkers' Union of Japan (fourth from right), and others at the press conference.=March 12,2025,Tokyo

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Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

A Metalworkers' Union employee fills out a whiteboard with the status of responses to labor-management negotiations.=Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Japan

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Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

A Metalworkers' Union employee fills out a whiteboard with the status of responses to labor-management negotiations.=Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Japan

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Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive. Chairman Akihiro Kaneko =Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

A Metalworkers' Union employee fills out a whiteboard with the status of responses to labor-management negotiations.=Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Japan

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Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive. Chairman Akihiro Kaneko =Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive. Chairman Akihiro Kaneko =Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

A Metalworkers' Union employee fills out a whiteboard with the status of responses to labor-management negotiations.=Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Japan

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Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive. Chairman Akihiro Kaneko =Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

A Metalworkers' Union employee fills out a whiteboard with the status of responses to labor-management negotiations.=Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Japan

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Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

A Metalworkers' Union employee fills out a whiteboard with the status of responses to labor-management negotiations.=Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Japan

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Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

A Metalworkers' Union employee fills out a whiteboard with the status of responses to labor-management negotiations.=Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Japan

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Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive. Chairman Akihiro Kaneko =Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

A Metalworkers' Union employee fills out a whiteboard with the status of responses to labor-management negotiations.=Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Japan

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Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive. Chairman Akihiro Kaneko =Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive. Chairman Akihiro Kaneko =Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

Filling in the whiteboard on the day of intensive response to the annual spring laborer offensive (Metalworkers' Union)

A Metalworkers' Union employee fills out a whiteboard with the status of responses to labor-management negotiations.=Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Japan

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Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive

Conference of the Council of Metalworkers' Unions on the Day of Concentrated Responses to the annual spring laborer offensive. Chairman Akihiro Kaneko =Date:March 13, 2024, Place: Tokyo

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Philippe Martinez- The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

Forum On The Future Of The Automobile By CGT And Greenpeace

The CGT Federation's Metalworkers union, the Climate Action Network and Greenpeace France are jointly organizing a forum on the future of the automobile on May 24, 2023 at the CGT headquarters in Montreuil, near Paris, France. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Major Japanese manufacturers offer reduced bonuses

Major Japanese manufacturers offer reduced bonuses

TOKYO, Japan - An official of the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions writes downs offers received by its member labor unions from management during spring wage negotiations at its office in Tokyo on March 14, 2012. Major Japanese manufacturers offered reduced bonuses the same day for fiscal 2012 starting next month, citing a deterioration in the business environment in the wake of the March 2011 earthquake and the yen's historic strength.

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Major manufacturers to implement automatic annual pay hikes

Major manufacturers to implement automatic annual pay hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Nishihara, president of the International Metalworkers Federation-Japan Council of Metalworkers Union (IMF-JC), speaks at a news conference at IMF-JC headquarters in Tokyo on March 17, 2010, after management of major Japanese manufacturers replied to unions' demand for pay hikes. Annual spring labor-management wage bargaining reached a peak the same day in Japan.

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Metalworkers' unions presenting pay-hike demands

Metalworkers' unions presenting pay-hike demands

TOKYO, Japan - Rikio Kozu (R), chairman of the labor union at Nippon Steel Corp., presents the union's wage demands to company director Kizo Hirayama at its head office in Tokyo on Feb. 10 as labor unions at steel and heavy machinery makers and shipbuilding companies began this year's wage negotiations.

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(2)Signs of structure shift clear in wage negotiations

(2)Signs of structure shift clear in wage negotiations

TOKYO, March 12 Kyodo - Katsutoshi Suzuki (C), head of the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Union, speaks at a news conference March 12 on wage offers made by manufacturers. ''Most of the unions were able to retain the wage system as they demanded. The results varied but created a new trend by drawing on more bonuses. This is a positive outcome of our activities,'' Suzuki said.

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(1)Signs of structure shift clear in wage negotiations

(1)Signs of structure shift clear in wage negotiations

TOKYO, March 12 Kyodo - An official of the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions puts down the wage offers made by manufacturers on a board listing unions affiliated with the council on March 12. Showing clear signs of a departure from the decades-old Japanese corporate wage structure, most of leading manufacturers have opted to dispense with pay-scale hikes for the second straight year.

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Metalworkers offered pay hikes, some topping last year levels

Metalworkers offered pay hikes, some topping last year levels

TOKYO, Japan - An official of the Japan Council of Metal Workers' Unions writes the amounts of pay hikes offered by the management of the auto, steel, shipbuilding and electrical appliance industries on a board at the council's office in Tokyo's Yaesu district on March 14. If the unions accept the offers, the average pay hike for all industries is likely to surpass last year's 2.06% raise, a record low.

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The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

Nail Yalcin, CGT representative of the SAM factory in Saint Claude and Frédéric Sanchez, general secretary of the CGT Métallurgie arrive at a meeting is organized between the trade unionists of the metallurgy and the ministry of finance. For foundries, subsidiaries or subcontractors of the automotive industry, aid of up to 50 million euros is still available, while the unions want guarantees of job maintenance and an end to relocations. Paris, France on May 4, 2021. Photo by Pierrick Villette/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

Nail Yalcin, CGT representative of the SAM factory in Saint Claude and Frédéric Sanchez, general secretary of the CGT Métallurgie arrive at a meeting is organized between the trade unionists of the metallurgy and the ministry of finance. For foundries, subsidiaries or subcontractors of the automotive industry, aid of up to 50 million euros is still available, while the unions want guarantees of job maintenance and an end to relocations. Paris, France on May 4, 2021. Photo by Pierrick Villette/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

Nail Yalcin, CGT representative of the SAM factory in Saint Claude and Frédéric Sanchez, general secretary of the CGT Métallurgie arrive at a meeting is organized between the trade unionists of the metallurgy and the ministry of finance. For foundries, subsidiaries or subcontractors of the automotive industry, aid of up to 50 million euros is still available, while the unions want guarantees of job maintenance and an end to relocations. Paris, France on May 4, 2021. Photo by Pierrick Villette/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

Nail Yalcin, CGT representative of the SAM factory in Saint Claude and Frédéric Sanchez, general secretary of the CGT Métallurgie arrive at a meeting is organized between the trade unionists of the metallurgy and the ministry of finance. For foundries, subsidiaries or subcontractors of the automotive industry, aid of up to 50 million euros is still available, while the unions want guarantees of job maintenance and an end to relocations. Paris, France on May 4, 2021. Photo by Pierrick Villette/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

Nail Yalcin, CGT representative of the SAM factory in Saint Claude and Frédéric Sanchez, general secretary of the CGT Métallurgie arrive at a meeting is organized between the trade unionists of the metallurgy and the ministry of finance. For foundries, subsidiaries or subcontractors of the automotive industry, aid of up to 50 million euros is still available, while the unions want guarantees of job maintenance and an end to relocations. Paris, France on May 4, 2021. Photo by Pierrick Villette/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

The Metalworkers Have A Meeting In Bercy - Paris

Nail Yalcin, CGT representative of the SAM factory in Saint Claude and Frédéric Sanchez, general secretary of the CGT Métallurgie arrive at a meeting is organized between the trade unionists of the metallurgy and the ministry of finance. For foundries, subsidiaries or subcontractors of the automotive industry, aid of up to 50 million euros is still available, while the unions want guarantees of job maintenance and an end to relocations. Paris, France on May 4, 2021. Photo by Pierrick Villette/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Metalworkers' unions presenting pay-hike demands

Metalworkers' unions presenting pay-hike demands

TOKYO, Japan - Rikio Kozu (R), chairman of the labor union at Nippon Steel Corp., presents the union's wage demands to company director Kizo Hirayama at its head office in Tokyo on Feb. 10 as labor unions at steel and heavy machinery makers and shipbuilding companies began this year's wage negotiations. (Kyodo)

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Major manufacturers to implement automatic annual pay hikes

Major manufacturers to implement automatic annual pay hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Nishihara, president of the International Metalworkers Federation-Japan Council of Metalworkers Union (IMF-JC), speaks at a news conference at IMF-JC headquarters in Tokyo on March 17, 2010, after management of major Japanese manufacturers replied to unions' demand for pay hikes. Annual spring labor-management wage bargaining reached a peak the same day in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Major Japanese manufacturers offer reduced bonuses

Major Japanese manufacturers offer reduced bonuses

TOKYO, Japan - An official of the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions writes downs offers received by its member labor unions from management during spring wage negotiations at its office in Tokyo on March 14, 2012. Major Japanese manufacturers offered reduced bonuses the same day for fiscal 2012 starting next month, citing a deterioration in the business environment in the wake of the March 2011 earthquake and the yen's historic strength. (Kyodo)

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(2)Signs of structure shift clear in wage negotiations

(2)Signs of structure shift clear in wage negotiations

TOKYO, March 12 Kyodo - Katsutoshi Suzuki (C), head of the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Union, speaks at a news conference March 12 on wage offers made by manufacturers. ''Most of the unions were able to retain the wage system as they demanded. The results varied but created a new trend by drawing on more bonuses. This is a positive outcome of our activities,'' Suzuki said. (Kyodo)

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(1)Signs of structure shift clear in wage negotiations

(1)Signs of structure shift clear in wage negotiations

TOKYO, March 12 Kyodo - An official of the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions puts down the wage offers made by manufacturers on a board listing unions affiliated with the council on March 12. Showing clear signs of a departure from the decades-old Japanese corporate wage structure, most of leading manufacturers have opted to dispense with pay-scale hikes for the second straight year. (Kyodo)

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