Hoje, os trabalhadores nas lojas da Apple no Japão anunciaram à Gerência a formação de um sindicato. O nome oficial do sindicato é Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo Sindicato Geral Local Apple Japão. O sindicato apresentou várias exigências, incluindo bônus, e terá num futuro próximo negociações coletivas com a empresa.
Les vendeurs d’Apple au Japon forment un syndicat
Aujourd’hui, les travailleurs en magasin d’Apple Japon ont annoncé à la direction la formation d’un syndicat. Le nom officiel est la cellule Apple Japan du syndicat Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union. Le syndicat a déposé ses revendications. Des négociations avec la direction auront lieu dans un futur proche.
Apple Retail Workers Unionize in Japan
Today, retail workers of Apple Japan announced the formation of a union to management. The official name of the union is Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union Apple Japan Local. The union has issued demands and will have collective bargaining with the company in the near future.
アップルジャパンの従業員は労働組合を結成しました
本日アップルジャパンのリテール従業員は労働組合の結成を経営者に通告しました。労働組合の正式な名称は「全国一般東京ゼネラルユニオンアップルジャパン支部」です。
組合側は要求を出しており、近いうちに会社と団体交渉を行う予定です。
Japan Times Staff Strikes For Higher Bonus
Editors and other staffers at Japan’s premier English-language newspaper walked out Wednesday, demanding a higher winter bonus.
Wages not keeping up with higher consumer prices
Although her husband’s salary increased, a Tokyo woman said she has tightened her family’s purse strings.
“Except for what my child absolutely needs, we have to be frugal in our spending,” the 37-year-old woman said.
Japan’s real wage index was minus 2.8 percent in October compared with the same period in 2013, the 16th straight month the index has fallen below zero, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on Dec. 2.
Jack London’s “Definition of a Scab”
Attributed to Jack London:
“After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab.
看過できぬ、芝浦工業大学の組合つぶし
全国一般東京ゼネラルユニオン（東ゼン労組）は今週木曜、東京都労働委員会に、芝浦工業大学（SIT）による不当労働行為の救済申立てを行った。
東ゼン労組は、SITが組合加盟者全員の解雇（雇い止めを含めて）を来年度に予定している点について、法に反する組合つぶしに相当すると主張している。組合に加盟しているSIT講師は、来年度にとどまらない期間の定めのない雇用を求めて、今年6月から散発的にストライキを実施してきた。
Tozen Union Sues SIT over Union Busting
Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union (Tozen Union) sued Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) Thursday in the Tokyo Labor Commission, claiming the university had committed unfair labor practices.
Would-be NTV announcer’s fate hangs on issues of morality and fraud
BY HIFUMI OKUNUKI
NOV 26, 2014
The prevalence of the employment custom of saiyō naitei (tentative job offers) may well be peculiar to Japan. As I touched upon in my March 27, 2012, column, university juniors and seniors skip class to attend work seminars, company orientations, internships and, finally, a series of tests and interviews with prospective employers.
Universities wholeheartedly approve of this shūkatsu job-hunting mania and are therefore quite lenient about attendance, assignments and other mere scholastic responsibilities. If things go well, seniors find themselves the lucky recipients of a saiyō naitei — an early promise of employment to begin the first April after graduation.