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 Shii submits to government an urgent plan to defend jobs and SMEs (December 5, 2008)
 Workers in rally call for fundamental revision of the Worker Dispatch Law (December 5, 2008)
 Union fights against IBM Japan’s 1,000 dismissal plan  (December 5, 2008)
 Contingent workers at Isuzu Motors form a labor union (December 4, 2008)
 Labor Minister promises to investigate Isuzu’s illegal dismissals (December 3, 2008)
 Ichida: Government is responsible in regard to three points concerning jobs (December 1, 2008 )
 30,000 contingent workers are set to be unemployed (November 29, 2008)
  Labor prepares Spring Struggle to break through economic crisis and win a pay raise of more than 10,000 yen a month  (November 28, 2008 )
 JCP chair urges Isuzu to retract its dismissal plan (November 27, 2008 )
 Isuzu will fire all its non-regular workers before 2009 (November 21, 2008)
 Japan Federation of Bar Associations holds a rally calling for Worker Dispatch Law to be revised (November 21, 2008)
 Toyota keeps 13 trillion yen in reserve, enough money to employ temps as full-time workers (November 20, 2008)
 JCP requests that Toyota Auto Body offer temporary workers full-time positions (November 20, 2008)
 JCP calls on Toyota Kyushu for job security (November 19, 2008)
 Zenroren recommended-nominee appointed to Central Labor Relations Commission (November 16, 2008)
 Drive Aso Cabinet into a corner in the struggle to defend working people’s lives (November, 14, 2008)
 Day of action held calling for getting rid of worsening living conditions (November 14, 2008 )
 Rally held to start joint action calling for drastic revision of the Worker Dispatch Law (November 14, 2008 )
 Labor minister says government won’t appeal ruling on nurse’s death from overwork in Osaka (November 14, 2008)
 80,000 medical workers take part in national day of action demanding drastic increase in medical staff (November 13, 2008 )
 JCP chair urges cabinet chief to stop massive firing of contingent workers (November 13, 2008)
 JCP urges Mazda to withdraw plan to lay off temps (November 11, 2008 )
 600 people hold a rally to urge Nichia to carry out its promise (November 11, 2008 )
 Toyota stops evading law in its use of temporary workers after being exposed by JCP chair in Diet  (November 9, 2008)
 Large corporations unilaterally stop hiring temporary workers (November 7, 2008)
 Aso Cabinet approves bill to revise Worker Dispatch Law (November 5, 2008 )
 Labor think tank proposes economic recovery by stimulating domestic demand (November 1, 2008)
 Nagoya District Court orders Toyota and Denso to pay compensation for work-related mental depression (October 31, 2008 )
 High Court recognizes nurse’s death from overwork as work-related (October 31, 2008 )
 People’s Spring Struggle Joint Committee holds meeting to discuss 2009 struggle (October 30, 2008 )
 Toyota fires workers even while earning one trillion dollars in profit (October 26, 2008)
 JCP Shii calls for drastic revision of the Worker Dispatch Law (October 8, 2008)
 Shii exposes Toyota’s evasion of law to use temporary workers as long as it can (October 8, 2008)
 Electronics workers call for Worker Dispatch Law to be reviewed (September 23, 2008 )
 More than 10 million working people in Japan live on less than 2 million yen a year (September 20, 2008)
 Shii talks with temporary workers at Toyota  (September 17, 2008)
 Shii calls on youth to join hands for decent work rules (September 10, 2008 )
 Public turns their attention to Zenroren  (September 10, 2008 )
 Opposition parties jointly urge government to give guidance to employers to end abuse of contingent workers (September 9, 2008)
 Zenroren urges government to take measures to help reduce hardships  (August 26, 2008)
 Fixed-term workers at Canon to receive 40,000-yen in lay-off compensation  (August 24, 2008)
 Contingent workers’ group urges Labor Ministry to regulate use of temps disguised as independent contractors  (August 22, 2008)
 Zenroren opens national ‘contingent workers center’ (August 22, 2008)
 Casualties among temp workers nine times more in just three years (August 22, 2008)
 Kyoto broadcast workers’ union wins full-time position for contingent workers (August 20, 2008)
 No increase in government employee wages  (August 12-13, 2008)
 Relief order issued for Nestle Japan workers (August 13, 2008)
 15-yen increase in minimum wage is far from enough to eliminate poverty (August 6, 2008)
 Government panel calls for ban on use of temporary workers for day labor (July 29, 2008)
 Labor ministry must work to drastically revise worker dispatch law [Editorial] (July 29, 2008)



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