Some are trying to lower the minimum age to as low as 18.
The deal would lower the final age to 24.
In 2000, the Diet lowered the age for criminal responsibility from 16 to 14.
It was held after the Danish government lowering the age of majority from 20 to 18 in 1976.
Management has offered to lower the age to 60, but the union is holding out for 57.
The state is the last in the nation to lower the age to 12.
The new law lowers the age of admission to 10.
He is also on a mission to lower the average age of members.
"And this year, for the first time, we lowered the minimum age to 16."
A motion then to lower the age to 16 failed by 27 votes.