NTT's massive personnel cut plan
The Telecommunication Industry Workers' Union (Tsushin-roso) chair, Iwasaki Shun, on May 15 described NTT's 60 thousand personnel reduction plan as a way to pursue profits by ceasing to be a public service entity.
The chairman of Tsushin-roso, which organizes employees of NTT, Japan's largest telecom group, was speaking at a meeting to discuss the NTT restructuring plan with Japanese Communist Party members of parliament.
Iwasaki said, "A major component of the NTT plan is the outsourcing of customer services for households, and those workers who currently belong to sections for such services will be asked to retire when they reach 50 years of age. They will only be rehired on condition that their salaries be reduced by 20 to 30 percent. "
JCP Lower House member Yajima Tsuneo commented that the NTT plan is a typical example of what Prime Minister Koizumi's "structural reforms" will mean to the workers and the public in general." (end)