Industrial Relations of Japanese Companies in China

到目前为止，中国的日本公司仍然保持着稳定的劳资关系，但广州和大连的大规模劳资冲突和罢工仍在发生，尽管政府大力遏制了这类运动。在这段时间里，通过罢工的过程，公司最高管理层了解到，工会“非常合作”(12.8%)或“合作”(27.7%)来解决罢工。在中国，常见的是突然发生在工会控制之外的野猫罢工和破坏活动，当它们发生时，工会和管理层共同努力解决冲突和罢工。在这次调查中，83%的工会主席是公司的中高级管理阶层员工。从这一点来看，中国没有通过工会表达普通工人利益的机制，最近党和政府决定在中国建立党支部和党委，甚至在某些党员受雇的外国公司也成立党委。在法律上，党支部和党委与管理无关，但在现实中，党的书记处与地方政府谈判、解决公司内部问题有很大关系，从现在起，中国将在社会主义市场经济中尝试建立自己的工业模式，与其引进日本式的合作式工业模式，还不如引进美式或西方对抗性的劳资关系模式。特别是会前信息共享、共同保住就业、公平分配利润等日式习俗和制度，对中国非常重要和有帮助。

Until now Japanese companies in China continued to keep stable industrial relations but large scale labor conflicts and strikes in Guangzhou and Dalien have happened in spite of severe government efforts to check these kinds of movements.In this period, through the process of the strike, top management of the company understood that trade unions were "very cooperative" (12.8%) or "cooperative" (27.7%) to resolve the strike. In China, there it is common to find wildcat strikes and sabotage suddenly happening outside of the control of the trade union, and when they happen, trade unions and management jointly try to resolve the conflict and the strike. In this survey, 83% of the chairmen of the trade unions were higher and middle management class employees of the companies. Viewed from this point, there is no mechanism in China where the interests of the general workers can find expression through the trade union.Recently the Party and the government decided to establish party sections and committees even in foreign companies in China, in which certain members of the party were employed. Legally, party sections and committees have nothing to do with management, but, in reality, the secretariat of the party has much to do with negotiation with local governments and solving trouble in the company.From now, China will try to establish its own industrial models in a socialistic market economy, and it will be better for China to introduce a Japanese-style cooperative industrial model rather than and American or Western confrontational industrial relations style. Especially, common sharing of information before meetings; joint efforts to maintain employment; and fair distribution of profits are Japanese style customs and systems which will be very important and helpful for China.