Sunday, May 26, 2013

Dismissed tour conductor SHIOTA Takuji reinstated!


SHIOTA Takuji, the president of the Hankyu Travel Support (HTS) Local of the National Union of General Workers' Tokyo Tobu, was finally reinstated on May 10. Mr. Shiota, a tour conductor belonging to HTS, had struggled for the withdrawal of his dismissal for four years. HTS had refused to assign a job to him as Shiota formed the local in January 2007 together with other tour conductors. Despite the fact that they were virtually employed on a full-time basis, they were obliged to work under dismal working conditions. They were not eligible for unemployment insurance, social insurance or paid holiday leave on the basis of a spot labor contract. (Sugano, National Union of General Workers' Tokyo Tobu)
* Photo: Protest in Shibuya, Tokyo in 2011


阪急トラベルサポート派遣添乗員・塩田卓嗣さんの職場復帰が実現!

不当な「アサイン停止」(事実上の解雇)撤回を求めて4年間闘ってきた全国一
般東京東部労組HTS(阪急トラベルサポート)支部塩田委員長の職場復帰が実
現しました!阪急交通社の旅行に添乗員を派遣する株式会社阪急トラベルサポー
ト所属の添乗員である塩田卓嗣さんは2007年1月、労働条件の改善を求めて
仲間たちと全国一般東京東部労組HTS(阪急トラベルサポート)支部を立ち上
げました。実態としては常用雇用であるにもかかわらず、ツアーがある時にだけ
雇用契約を締結する「登録型派遣」という雇用契約を理由に、塩田さんら添乗員
は雇用保険・社会保険未加入、有給休暇の取得も認められないという劣悪な労働
条件で働いてきました。(東部労組・菅野) 

700 protest against easier dismissal in front of Tokyo courts




On May 15, 2013, members of many trade unions and labor struggle groups gathered in front of the courts in Tokyo to protest against easier dismissal. The action was organized beyond the difference in policy between the unions and groups with approximately 700 participants. At the meeting, many unlawfully dismissed workers, including those of the JAL (Japan Airlines) Struggle Group, were filled with a sense of crisis and expressed their anger against the Abe administration that promotes easier dismissal of workers and the courts that support the current administration. One demonstrator said, The Abe administration is trying to further destroy the already deteriorated labor market. We want to put such a dismal labor situation into the right track. (M)

首切り自由は許さない!~裁判所前で700人が声上げる

5 15日昼の「首切り自由は許さない!裁判所包囲大行動」。東京裁判所前には
色とりどりの組合旗・争議団旗が林立した。この日の行動は、全労連・全労協の
枠をこえた共同の取り組みとなり、参加規模も約700人と大きく膨らんだ。集会
ではJAL争議団など当事者が次々と発言。解雇自由を推進する安倍政権とそれを
先取りする司法への怒りと危機感に溢れていた。ある参加者は「今でもボロボロ
の労働市場になっているのに、安倍政権はさらに拍車をかけようとしている。異
常な雇用破壊状況をこうした運動を通じて正していきたい」と語っていた。(М) 



Constitutional revision is bad for us ? LaborNet TV




The revision of the Japanese Constitution that Prime Minister Abe aims at is to keep workers and citizens from being resistant for war efforts.
This is a comment of YAMAGUCHI Masanori, a journalist, and NIHEI Hisakatsu, the former chairperson of the Joint Struggle Congress against the Unlawful Dismissal of Former National Railways Workers, in the LaborNet TV program on May 9, 2013. According to them, there are three points in Abes policies, which are (1) Denial of the right to organize of public servants, (2) Suppression of freedom of expression, and (3) Change of war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution for the worse and the denial of pacifism. Yamaguchi pointed out, LaborNet TV will be repressed once identified as being contrary to the public interest. Also, it will be impossible to hold the anti-nuke demonstration currently held in front of the Prime Ministers Office.
The two commentators stressed that the media are even supporting the wrong direction of the administration. They called for a wide-range bipartisan movement against the revision of the Constitution. In addition, two schoolteachers who are resisting the coercion of the controversial Kimigayo national anthem of Japan also talked about the current dangerous situation in the program. After the program, some viewers said, Todays discussion made us recognize how bad the revision of the Constitution will be. We have to do something. (M)




恐ろしい近未来が見えてきた!~レイバーネットTVで改憲特集

「安倍改憲は、労働者市民の抵抗力を奪って戦争のできる国にすること」。59
日、レイバーネットTVで対談した山口正紀さん・二瓶久勝さんは、安倍政権の改
憲の狙いを鋭く、かつわかりやすく語った。ポイントは3つで、(1)公務員労働
者の団結権否定(2)表現の自由の抑圧(3)九条改悪・平和主義の否定、である。
山口さんは「レイバーネットTVも公益に反すると認定されたら弾圧されてしまう。
官邸前デモもできなくなる」と危機感を募らせる。二人が強調したのは、マスコ
ミが安倍改憲暴走にチェックをかけるどころか尻馬に乗っていること。そして
「党派を超えた幅広い改憲反対運動をつくっていこう」と呼びかけた。また番組
には、改憲先取りの「君が代」強制に抵抗している二人の教員が出演し、思いを
語った。放送終了後の二次会では「対談と教員の生の声を聞いて、恐ろしい日本
の近未来が見えてきた。何とかしなくては」との声があった。(M
写真