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Contingent workers at Isuzu Motors form a labor union

 

Four temporary workers and fixed-term contract workers at Isuzu Motors Tochigi Plant in Ohira-machi, Tochigi Prefecture, on December 3 established their union represented by the All-Japan Metal and Information Machinery Workersf Union (JMIU).

 

The four workers, who received dismissal notices just recently, are demanding that Isuzu retract its plan to lay off illegally all temporary workers and fixed-term contract workers and that they be offered full-time positions.

 

Isuzu Tochigi Plant has told 274 temporary workers and 156 fixed-term contract workers that it would lay them off before the expiry of the current contracts.

 

Newly formed JMIU Isuzu Branch Chair Matsumoto Hirotoshi said, gWe are determined to struggle against unfair dismissals. I want to call on other contingent workers to join us in raising our voices instead of unwillingly accepting the layoff notice.h

 

On the same day, the new born union members and their advocates held an assembly to celebrate the unionfs inauguration.

 

Representatives of the National Confederation of Trade Unions (Zenroren) and JMIU said, gLetfs force Isuzu to give up on the illegal dismissals and fulfill its social responsibility as a major corporation. The establishment of this union encourages contingent workers across the nation. Letfs win the revocation of the layoff plan with nationwide support and solidarity.h

 

The JMIU Isuzu Branch on the following day notified Isuzu of its inauguration and filed for an injunction against the dismissals with the Utsunomiya District Court Tochigi Branch.                                            - Akahata, December 4, 2008

 




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