Survey on Labour Disputes 2009
Digest of Summary Report
～While the number of “labour disputes with no disputes activities” increased, the number of ”disputes accompanied by acts of dispute” was 92 cases, the lowest since 1957.
Please find the results of “survey on Labour Disputes 2009” as follows:
1 Number of disputes
(1)The number of “disputes accompanied by acts of dispute” was 92 cases (17.9% decrease from the previous year).
It fell below 100 cases for the first time, and it was the lowest since the 1957 survey corresponded to this survey.
(2)The number of “disputes settled by third party (such as Labour Committee) intervention” has increased consecutively for two years, and was 688 cases (26.2% increase from the previous year). It was the highest since the 2004 survey (564 cases).
【Table 1(PDF:54KB), Figure 1(PDF:71KB)】
2 Acts of dispute status
“Disputes accompanied by acts of dispute” by act type are as follows.
(1)The number of “strike of a half day or more” has decreased consecutively for two years. It was 48 cases, and 7.7% decrease from the previous year.
The number of working days lost (*) due to this was 7,492 days, and 33.1 % decrease from the previous year.
(*) Aggregate person-days lost by dispute participants in strike.
(2)The number of “strikes of less than half a day” has decreased consecutively for two years, and was 59 cases (26.3% decrease from the previous year). It was the lowest since comparable 1963 survey.
【Table 2(PDF:59KB)】
3 Major demands
On the major demands for disputes, “union security and activities” such as complying with collective negotiations, and lending an office to union was the highest in number. It was 222 cases (84 cases increase from the previous year).
“Objection to dismissal and reinstatement of dismissed employee ” followed, and was 213 cases (40 cases increase from the previous year). They both increased significantly from the previous year.
【Table 6(PDF:87KB)】
(Reference) the total number of disputes of 2- (1) and (2) exceeded the number of disputes of 1-(1) since every act of dispute was counted when there were more than one act of dispute per dispute.
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