The Rise of Unions in Japan

The Rise of Unions in Japan

By Lance Winslow

Is organized labor about to destroy Japan's industrial might and efficiency strength? Most people in the United States believe that organized labor has every right to organize and use their numbers to protect against exploitation, maintain worker safety and to get paid a fair wage. In Japan, it would be considered dishonorable for a company not to be fair to their workers and thus, a union is not needed.

Employees have extreme loyalty to the corporations they work for and in years past have worked their all their lives, as have many of their families. Today, Japan is under considerable economic stress due to an aging population, one of the problems that the US and Europe will also face as the Baby Boomers retire and the Baby Busters continue to pay into the system. [Futurecast - Robert Shapiro].

Now, something unprecedented is taking place in Japan, there are actually labor arbitrator courts, something you would have never expected in Japan, a society that works well on such an authoritative level. In the past talk of such things would have been considered the words of Revolutionists or Guerillas. But times are changing in Japan and the untouchable loyalty is dwindling.

Will these labor unions that are forming break the back of Industrialized Japan? Will this cause a further decay of World-Wide market share at a time when low-cost competing products in China are hitting the free-markets in such quantity? If worker demands outpace the profit potential of Japanese Manufacturers and Corporations, will Japan in-turn end up subsidizing businesses to keep them afloat?

Is Japan turning a corner that could cost her the edge in advanced technology and manufacturing efficiency? Some worry about these prospects, and the Online Think Tank is constantly assessing what this means for Japan's future.

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