TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s top automobile industry union group has no plans to scale back its demand for wage talks next year despite a heavy drag on the sector’s earnings from U.S. tariffs, its chief told Reuters on Friday.
“With prices continuing to rise and real wages still lagging, there’s simply no option to go into next year’s wage talks with a weaker stance than last year,” Akihiro Kaneko, president of the Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers’ Unions (JAW), said in an interview.
The group has 12 unions under its umbrella, representing a total of 874,000 workers, including those of Toyota Motor, Honda Motor, and parts makers.
(Reporting by Makiko Yamazaki and Kentaro Sugiyama)
