全ぜん労連ろうれんのメーデー“物価ぶっか上昇じょうしょう分ぶん上回うわまわる大幅おおはばな賃上ちんあげを”宣言せんげん採択さいたく

May 1st is May Day.

The May Day rally of the labor organization Zenroren was held in Tokyo, and a declaration aiming for significant wage increases exceeding the rise in prices was adopted.

The Zenroren convention was held at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, with 14,000 participants according to the organizers.

In this context, Zenroren Chairman Masaomi Akiyama said, Our struggle has created public opinion that improvements in workers treatment and significant wage increases are necessary.

However, the rising prices of goods, especially rice, are having a significant impact on our lives.

He said, Lets call for shifting financial resources from military expansion to protecting peoples lives, livelihoods, and education.

After this, a May Day declaration was adopted, stating that efforts would be made to improve living conditions through substantial wage increases exceeding the rise in prices, to eliminate all forms of harassment and aim to correct disparities from a gender equality perspective, and to support small and medium-sized enterprises and farmers in order to help Japans economic recovery.

The declaration also included strengthening solidarity with workers around the world for the realization of peace, noting that this year, the 80th since the end of the war, the Trump administration’s tariff measures have greatly increased uncertainty in the global economy.

A female nurse in her 50s at a national hospital said, I want to be closer to my patients, but due to a shortage of staff, Im so pressed for time that I cant.

Prices are rising and its putting a strain on our lives.

There is an aspect that people arent coming because wages arent rising, so I would like to raise wages and provide good medical care, he said.

Communist Party Chairman Tamura: I want to call for a fight to protect peoples lives from rising prices and to change politics. Chairman Tamura of the Communist Party, who attended, said, I want to call for a fight to protect peoples lives from rising prices and to change politics.

In addition to directly supporting small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve significant wage increases, we will aim to reduce the consumption tax to 5% and eventually abolish it, and will completely abolish the invoice system.

He appealed, We will call for large corporations and the wealthy who are making profits to bear their fair share of taxes, and strongly expand the demand for an immediate reduction in the consumption tax.