Toyota union eyes 1.9 mil. yen bonus, sharply down from FY 2008

NAGOYA, Jan. 27 Kyodo - Toyota Motor Corp.'s labor union has decided to seek an average of about 1.9
million yen in annual bonuses per worker for the 2009 business year, down more
than 500,000 yen from the previous business year, in the forthcoming wage
negotiations with the management, union officials said Tuesday.
Toyota Motor Workers' Union has decided on the amount, equivalent to five
months' wages plus 200,000 yen, at a time when the automaker is grappling with
rapidly falling vehicle demand in the face of the global economic slump.
Last year, the union saw its request of an average 2.53 million yen bonus, the
firm's second-highest on record, fully granted by the management.
For the first time ever, the union plans to call on the management this year to
raise wages for nonregular workers who have joined the union, in line with
requested wage hikes for regular workers.
The union has already decided to seek an average 4,000 yen hike in basic
monthly pay for regular employees.
==Kyodo