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List of Past issues Cruel working conditions at Olympic construction sites (May 23, 2019) Number of workplace accidents involving foreign workers increasing (May 23, 2019) Japanese, UK, US, and Korean public service workers share experiences of struggles against outsourcing (May 21, 2019) Workers’ hourly earnings decrease in Japan over last 20 yrs. unlike other major countries (May 18, 2019) NHK contract staff union again wins court ruling in support of union’s claim (May 16, 2019) More than 40% of nurses at municipal hospitals experience ‘power harassment’: union survey (May 14, 2019) Rallies in celebration of 90th May Day in Japan take place at 294 locations across nation (May 2, 2019) New visa system launched without adequate preparations to accept more foreign workers[Editorial] (April 26, 2019) Gov’t argues against TEPCO’s plan to use foreign workers for decommissioning work at Fukushima Daiichi NPP (April 24, 2019) Low pay and aging of workers create critical crisis in nursing-care industry (April 23, 2019) TEPCO intends to accept foreign workers to work on decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi NPP (April 20, 2019) Corporations driving workers to ‘karoshi’ certified as worker-friendly by Labor Minister (April 19, 2019) Zenroren holds internationally-coordinated event with SEIU (April 18, 2019) JMITU asks French ambassador for cooperation in settling Nissan labor dispute (April 18, 2019) Dockworkers stage 48-hour strike (April 16, 2019) Japan reluctant to ratify ILO conventions (April 11, 2019) Suicide of worker at JAXA contract company recognized as work-related (April 4, 2019) Another 43 deaths of foreign trainees detected in new report (March 30, 2019) Labor Ministry panel imposes on doctors monthly overtime cap twice as high as gov’t-set danger line for ‘karoshi’ (March 29, 2019) Truck drivers seek wage hike and transport safety (March 28, 2019) Workers walk out in protest against corporate response offering tiny pay hike (March 14&15, 2019) Increasing number of foreign trainees used in violation of labor laws (March 15, 2019) JCP Fujino: New residence status lacks protection of foreign workers’ human rights (March 14, 2019) Japan’s low public sector worker density leads to low public service levels (March 12, 2019) Day of action held to push companies to offer drastic wage hike in this year’s ‘shunto’ talks (March 8, 2019) Over 70% of job gains under Abenomics are non-regular jobs (March 7, 2019) Hitachi and its group companies instructed to abide by rules pertaining to foreign trainee program (March 6, 2019) Non-regular postal workers demand Japan Post abide by court rulings ordering an end to regular/non-regular gaps (March 5, 2019) We can't go on any longer: franchise owners' union requests collective talks with 7-Eleven (February 28, 2019) Workers in Aichi demand that Toyota Motor fulfill its CSR (February 26, 2019) Court: Shukutoku University's refusal to engage in collective bargaining is unfair labor practice (February 22, 2019) Depending on workers' struggle, AI can become tool to shorten working hours (February 19, 2019) Japanese CAs fighting in court against KLM's unilateral dismissals (February 18, 2019) 70% of nursing-care facilities impose 16 hour shifts on workers: Union survey (February 16, 2019) Hitachi unfairly dismisses foreign trainees (February 16, 2019) Top court determines punishment of ex-union leader to be illegal (January 30, 2019) Union wins revision of ‘36 agreement’ on overtime exceeding gov’t-set danger line for death from overwork (January 26, 2019) Mitsubishi Motors and Panasonic punished for violating law on use of foreign trainees (January 26, 2019) National trade union centers criticize Keidanren for taking hostile stance toward wage hike demand (January, 24, 2019) Keidanren’s policy on 2019 wage talks shows negative attitude to drastic pay increase (January 24, 2019) Worker-oriented reforms plus \25,000 wage hike will push up GDP by \34.8 trillion: Labor thinktank (January 17 & 21, 2019) Physicians’ union: Labor Ministry proposes putting ceiling on doctors’ overtime which exceeds official gov’t-set danger line for ‘karoshi’ (January, 18, 2019) JCP conducts on-site inspection at state-run facility for supporting foreign residents in Japan (January 12, 2019) RIKEN union blocks institute’s mass dismissals of non-regular workers (January, 9, 2019) Independent contractors for TEPCO subsidiary unionized (January 6, 2019) Unfairly-fired art professors in Nagoya struggle in court for right to return to work (December 20, 2018) Foreign workers’ treatment at Sharp factory violates Worker Dispatch Law: Labor Ministry (December 20, 2018) JCP demands effective and enforceable law to eradicate workplace harassment (December 18, 2018) Mass dismissals of foreign workers at Sharp plant is illegal: JCP Koike (December 14, 2018) 174 foreign trainees died in eight years (December 8, 2018)
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