Toyota group unions to demand pay hike of at least 4,000 yen

[Omaha Steve]

Toyota still has no union workers in the USA

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NAGOYA, Jan 17, 2009 (Kyodo News International - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- TM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- The federation of labor unions of Toyota Motor Corp. group companies decided Saturday to demand an increase of at least 4,000 yen in basic monthly pay in this year's "shunto" spring wage negotiations, federation officials said.

The Federation of All Toyota Workers' Unions, consisting of 300 unions with a combined 306,000 members as of 2008, also approved at a meeting in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, a plan to ask the management to "maintain to the maximum extent" the employment of nonregular laborers, the officials said.

Among the unions under the federation, the Toyota Motor Workers' Union plans to demand a 4,000 yen pay increase and present the request to the management of Toyota Motor in mid-February, they said.

Automakers, as well as consumer electronics companies, are the pacesetters in annual wage talks.

[madrchsod]

1. no wonder they love america

their plants here do`t have those pesky unions...

[MichiganVote]

2. But I thought they liked working for less money, the media told me so.....(sarcasm)