[Alberta's Child]

Japan has unions, but they're obviously much different than they are here.

I read somewhere recently that Honda plants in Japan are all unionized . . . and that Honda hasn't had a work stoppage at any of its plants since something like 1957.

[BobL]

“Japan has unions, but they’re obviously much different than they are here.

I read somewhere recently that Honda plants in Japan are all unionized . . . and that Honda hasn’t had a work stoppage at any of its plants since something like 1957. “

Actually, as I understand it, Japan had militant unions, right after WW2, when they were occupied - they were modeled after our system and strikes were going on all over the place. General MacArthur saw that nothing was getting done, so he changed the rules, and that was the end of that problem...and the beginning of their economic miracle, and those new rules continue to this day.