ベア平均、最高の９５９３円　「満点」も格差拡大―金属労協中間集計

　自動車、電機など五つの産業別労働組合で組織する金属労協（３０６２労組）が２日発表した２０２４年春闘の中間集計によると、基本給を底上げするベースアップ（ベア）の獲得額は、３月末時点の中間集計で平均９５９３円となった。物価高や人手不足が賃上げを後押しし、比較可能な１４年以降で最高だった前年同時期の５６４７円を上回った。ただ、大手と中小の格差は４３７０円と、前年同時期の１８１８円から拡大した。
　金属労協が東京都内で開いた記者会見で、金子晃浩議長は多くの労組が高水準の回答を得られたことを挙げ、「総論としては満点と言ってもいい」と述べた。金属労協傘下で中小企業の労組が多い「ものづくり産業労働組合（ＪＡＭ）」の安河内賢弘会長も都内で会見し「容認できないレベルまで格差が開いてしまった」と指摘し、価格転嫁を取引先に要請しにくい下請けがしわ寄せを受ける商習慣の見直しが必要だと訴えた。（2024/04/02-19:09）

The average of pay scale increases secured by labor unions of Japanese manufacturers as of the end of March in this spring's "shunto" wage talks hit a record high of 9,593 yen per month amid rising prices and labor shortages, the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions said Tuesday.
   "In general, I think it's fair to give (this year's shunto) a perfect score" as many labor unions secured high-level pay increases, JCM chief Akihiro Kaneko said at a press conference in Tokyo.
   Still, the gap between the average pay scale increase of large companies and that of smaller companies grew to 4,370 yen from 1,818 yen a year earlier.
   The gap expanded to "an unacceptable level," Katahiro Yasukouchi, head of the Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery and Manufacturing Workers, a group under the JCM's umbrella that consists of many labor unions of smaller companies, said at a separate press conference.
   According to the JCM, 1,077 of the group's 2,268 member labor unions secured a pay scale increase as they demanded.