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.
Shane Eikaiwa Issues
Shane Eikaiwa Issues
シェーン英会話の問題
- Are you unsatisfied with the relationship between teachers and Japanese school staff?
- Are school counsellors truthful to you about student feedback or do they obstruct you by making inept “improvement suggestions”?
- Does your school counsellor assign you very heavy schedules with only short breaks?
- Are you pressured to cover days at the last minute?
- The schedule for the next day can be changed only as late as 6 p.m the day before. Does your counsellor call you late into the night?
- Are you treated with respect from your manager?
- Do you have a problem with cover days?
- Do you have a problem with additional training days?
- Are you concerned that teacher representative only meets management twice a year and that meeting minutes are rarely seen by teachers?
- Do you want to be enrolled in Shakai Hoken?
- Are your troubled by the increase in insurance premiums to Interglobal from 7,000 yen to 8,000 yen a month which doesn’t cover dental insurance or hospitalisation?
- Are you upset that teachers are only considered to be working teaching time, not the actual time in school?
Improve your working conditions at Shane by contacting us today: info@tokyogeneralunion.org
Shane Teachers Begin Tozen Strike Action
Several teachers at Shane laid down their white board markers on Tuesday to demand the reinstatement of an unfairly dismissed union member and to demand job security.
The English language school illegally fired a teacher for leaving the school during a break. In Japan employees are 100% free during breaks.
Shane also forces teachers through the humiliation and insecurity of one-year revolving contracts. Tozen Union Shane Workers Union is fighting for several demands, among them ordinary permanent employment.
We are experiencing union growth at Shane and look forward to having enough members to make striking even more effective. We also reach out to Shane administrative staff to join forces.