Honda Motor’s union will not call for wage hikes for fiscal 2010 from April, for the first time in five years, during annual wage negotiations with the management in the spring, union officials said.
The leadership of the 40,000-strong Honda Motor Workers’ Union decided to forgo demanding increases in the basic monthly wage as Honda’s wages have been maintained at relatively high levels in the industry, the officials said, adding consumer prices have also not gone up.
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But the union leadership will propose calling for a hike in bonuses equal to 5.7 months’ wages, up from 5.5 months’ wages demanded last year, citing an improvement in the automaker’s profit, they told Kyodo News.
The union will formalise the decision on 16 February and submit the demand to the company the following day, the officials said.
Toyota Motor’s union has also decided not to demand a hike in the company’s pay scale for its workers but he Nissan Motor union plans to seek an increase of JPY7,000 in basic monthly wages, according to union sources.
