Construction group end of 22nd general meeting / Focus on wage increase and overtime reduction, sense of crisis due to soaring materials
The Nikkenren General Assembly held in Tokyo on April 28th. A social gathering was held for the first time in 3 years
The 2022 annual general meeting of construction-related organizations was almost completed by the end of June. Many were held face-to-face, and some groups held a social gathering for the first time in three years. The environment surrounding the industry is becoming more severe due to soaring prices of construction materials. After the upper house election, the focus will be on securing public works-related expenses in the second supplementary budget for fiscal 2010 in the country where the organization is expected. Looking back on each organization's business plan for this year and the words of executives, we will explore immediate issues and prospects.
"We cannot make positive efforts in a situation where profits do not rise while aiming to transform the construction industry. We may also water the proper salary payment of technicians." Yoichi Miyamoto, chairman of the Japan Federation of Construction Contractors (Nikkenren), raises a sense of crisis due to the drastic price increase of materials that has never been seen before.
Nikkenren created a pamphlet as a material to explain the current situation of soaring materials to private orderers. We also requested Keidanren (Chairman Masakazu Tokura) to inform the members. In the future, assuming a supplementary budget prepared by the government, the policy is to secure public works spending and seek economic measures to prevent private construction investment from falling due to rising prices.
"We must work to ensure that measures such as raising the labor unit price are appropriately reflected in the wage increase of the entire construction industry, including subcontractors," said Takanori Okumura, chairman of the National Construction Industry Association (Zenken). He appealed for the need for so-called after-five-year measures and budget securing after the measures are completed, as well as the leveling of public works spending for disaster prevention / mitigation and five-year acceleration measures for national resilience.
Ryoji Toshida, Chairman of the National Small and Medium-sized Construction Industry Association (Zenchuken), said, "Minimum price limit rate of 95% or more" for stable management, based on the characteristics of members who are highly dependent on construction ordered by local governments centered on municipalities. I called. He also explained the background of the fact that there are still cases where low-priced orders that are 10% or more lower than the planned price are accepted.
It is also an urgent issue for the industry to comply with the upper limit with penalties for overtime work applied in April 2012. Takuzo Shimizu, Chairman of the Japan Dredging and Reclamation Association (Japan Dredging and Reclamation Association), will work on two days a week (8 holidays a week) in collaboration with the ordering party, while working to prevent the wages of technicians working at cooperating companies from decreasing. Emphasize. He said, "I would like to direct the industry to be responsible for social issues and to be able to do it sustainably and properly," and expressed his willingness to innovate to increase productivity in the field.
Yoshinori Nishida, Chairman of the Japan Road Construction Industry Association (Dokenkyo), explained that the soaring amount of straight asphalt was not sufficiently passed on to the selling price of mixed materials, "pressing the profits of the mixed material manufacturing industry." He introduced the notifications of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry regarding price pass-through, and said, "We will strive to realize proper price pass-through."
