出版社：Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
摘要：Since the 1990s, there have been signs indicating that Japanese labor
unions are on the decline.
First, the number of union members has been showing an absolute decline
since 1994 as indicated in Figure 1. It is widely known that the unionization
rate has been declining: the rate, which had been 34.3% in 1975, dropped to
18.7% in 2005. However, the following facts are not as widely known. The
number of union members has been decreasing after reaching the postwar peak
of 12.7 million in 1994. In 2005, the figure dropped to 10.14 million. This
means that the number of union members has been declining at the average
