Japan has announced an amendment to the law requiring shippers to improve logistics efficiency in order to improve 'waiting time', the biggest issue in working conditions for truck drivers.
On the 17th, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism prepared amendments to the law requiring shippers to improve logistics efficiency in order to improve the working environment, such as the multi-subcontracting structure of the transportation industry, Yomiuri reported on the same day.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MLIT) held an expert meeting on the same day and announced this proposal, announcing that it would submit a related law amendment bill to Congress for the first time in 24 years.
The revised law requires shippers and logistics operators to establish plans in law, such as reducing the number of deliveries and driver waiting time, in order to increase operational efficiency by strengthening the cooperation system.
Yomiuri said the goal of the revision was to improve the wages and treatment of truck drivers, and that it was a proactive response to the "2024 problem" in the transportation industry caused by driver shortages.
In truck freight transportation, basic conditions such as delivery time are decided between the sender and the receiver in a package, which puts the transportation company in a weak position, and moreover, truck drivers are forced into harsh working conditions, Yomiuri pointed out.
According to the new amendment, the logistics operator, which is located in A, can reduce waiting time for truck drivers by applying new labor standards from April 24.
Yomiuri reported that transport capacity is expected to be reduced by up to 14.2% (equivalent to 400 million tons) while the working environment improves this time, and the number of drivers hired by Japan is also decreasing, and transport companies are in a hurry to secure workers.
In Korea, on the 16th, the Fair Trade Commission held a meeting to decide whether to file a complaint with the prosecution on charges of “obstruction of the investigation,” considering the KCTU Public Transportation Workers’ Cargo Solidarity Headquarters (Cargo Solidarity) as a business group.
The government saw the strike as an illegal act by the cargo union demanding the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs to 'abolish the sunset system of the safe fare system and expand the scope of application,' and abolished the 3-year extension plan. approached by business organizations.
The Fair Trade Commission examiner defined the cargo union as a business group for special employment types (special high school), and the cargo union is a labor union governed by the three rights of labor and is not subject to the Fair Trade Act.
In November of last year, the U.S. railroad union announced a railroad strike when “waiting time” became an issue in labor-management negotiations. The White House mediated and four unions rejected the “provisional agreement,” and Congress intervened in the law.
A tentative agreement in September, involving the Democratic White House, resulted in a significant pay increase of around $50,000 to $100,000 in basic salary, but the union was forced to manage staff shortages by strict attendance policies that led to disciplinary action or layoffs by carriers, which forced union members to spend days and nights at a time. In response to being forced to stand on standby for weeks at times, it became the biggest dispute in the negotiations.
Long hours and long waits made it difficult for railroad workers to see a doctor for illness or injury or attend family milestones such as a child's birthday, which was an issue in the negotiations for "paid sick leave" demands.
In response to the tentative agreement, SMART Transportation, which represents the freight rail conductors, rejected the "interim deal" in November.
Members of the second largest union representing engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trains, approved the agreement with a 53.5% vote.
All three of the smaller unions (Brotherhood of Railway Signalers, Brotherhood of Road Employers, and Brotherhood of International Boiler Manufacturers) voted against the tentative deal, and when a strike was announced, the Democratic-led Congress intervened.
"It is not enough to 'share workers' concerns'," the Brotherhood of the Way Employes Division said in a statement at the time. The request to do so ignores the concerns of railroad workers."
The leading negotiators of the railroads, the UP, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, CSX and Kansas City Southern groups, said on Oct. 21 that "the board had rejected the union's request for paid sick leave.<Refer to the media’s focus on ‘labor talks’ in response to the US railroad strike, November 30, 2022>
In the UK, two weeks before the end of the year-end holiday in December of last year, workers from the railroad union and the postal union went on a one-month scheduled strike, leaving railway stations empty.
The British Conservative government decided to entrust the public sector wage negotiations to the “public sector worker wage decision review body,” and the opposition Labor Party argued that the government should allow direct negotiations with unions.
In the UK, 100,000 nurses went on a one-day strike on the 15th following the end-of-year strike of railway post office workers, and the confrontation between the Conservative government and the Labor Party rekindled the Thatcherism crisis 40 years ago. <See Conservative Party’s “Strike Ban Act” Labor Party’s “Expansion of Supporters” in Britain’s largest strike, dated December 15, 2022>
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