“In that sense, as head of Rengo, I believe I must extend a hand to those people and listen to their voices closely and demand a better working environment for them.” “In order to stabilize their daily life, we must hurry to protect their employment,” she said. And growing numbers of workers are “non-regular” without full benefits. But it has not pushed wages appreciably higher -– real incomes adjusted for inflation have been falling for most of the past 30 years. The chronic short-handedness has prompted innovations such as hotels with front desks manned by robots and driverless trains. Japan has been contending with labor shortages for years, as its population shrinks and ages.
and many ‘non-regular’ workers fear losing their jobs, while many others were laid off and ended up in dire straits after using up their savings,” said Yoshino, who last month was elected president of the federation of about 7 million workers. “The most urgent issue is to secure stable employment. Rengo has stepped up efforts to encourage labor organizing among “non-regular” workers, such as those on temporary contracts, part-timers and freelancers, a large share of whom are women. Japanese unions traditionally have mostly just represented “regular workers,” or people employed in full-time permanent jobs. In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, she said stable work has to be the top priority after the pandemic, which hit women and other vulnerable groups the hardest, in Japan and elsewhere. Tomoko Yoshino is the first woman to head Rengo, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation. TOKYO (AP) - The head of Japan’s largest labor federation says she is determined to listen to the voices of all workers in fighting for better wages and conditions.
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