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Does Japan have a labor movement? I would expect not a strong one.

• diggan 3y ago
  > In 2005, 43,096 labour unions in Japan, with a combined membership of 7,395,666 workers, belonged either directly, or indirectly through labour union councils, to the three main labour union federations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_Japan
• cybrox 3y ago
  How would they have time for that with those overtime schedules..? Jokes aside, though, yes they do. Though as far as I am aware, mostly in the traditional sense for the primary industry sector to keep companys from working employees to death physically but not really modernized in the tertiary sector. Memberships are declining and I think a great many issues that make life difficult for people in these now more prominent sectors of industry are not openly recognized and tackled.
• bugglebeetle 3y ago
  Japan had a very strong labor movement that was systematically dismantled in the 80s, as it was in the U.S. Miyazaki Hayao was a union leader at Toei early in his career and quite famously criticized Tezuka for establishing the exploitation and underpayment of animators as industry practice with his studio, Mushi Production.