Let’s defend our lives and employment through the unity and solidarity among workers!
Let’s steer for a denuclearized society!
Zenkoku-Ippan Iwaki Jiyu Rouso (NUGW Iwaki Freedom Union of Workers)
Having survived the two natural disasters of earthquake and tsunami, lost family members, dwellings and household goods, we are now confronted with the two human disasters of radiation exposure and unemployment.
The radiation is wrecking local communities and depriving workers of their means of living.
The tsunami devastated the whole coastal area, and the Onahama port got crushing damages, too.
Immediately after the earthquake/tsunami, dismissal begun to spread at the port, and Iwaki Tuh’un, a transport company which has many subcontracting firms, forced all its subcontractors to dismiss their workers even without severance pays.
Dismissed workers came to our labor counselling desk, and our union and fellow unions waged their protest/resistance campaigns against the dismissals. In the end, we have been successful in realizing the continuation of employment at all the subcontracting firms with making use of the public subsidy to defray the costs to layoffs.
The similar activities are spreading among the unions of the Onahama Area Council of Unions, and this public subsidy machinery has become an important means to prevent dismissals.
Opportunistic, piggybacking nonpayment of wages and dismissal of workers are spreading in the disaster-stricken areas. It is only the power of workers union, unity and solidarity among workers that can confront with those anti-worker practices of business firms. Especially the unity and solidarity among those workers who rallied to the Onahama Mayday actions should be our start line.
Workers should unite!
– We should fight for defense of those workers who have suffered their worst disaster of dismissal.
– Let’s wage our struggle against outrageous offensive dismissals!
– Let’s press the government and Tepco to guarantee the money to live on for all the workers!
Workers should unite!
– Let’s press the government and Tepco to accept their duty to finance the rehabilitation of local communities, industries, agriculture and fishery!
– We cannot accept any rehabilitation without employment!
– Let’s secure jobs for the unemployed workers through rehabilitation projects!
– Eliminate the special interest groups, and establish workers and disaster-sufferers’ monitoring over the rehabilitation projects!
Workers should unite!
– Let’s demand public and lifetime healthcare for those who are oengaged in the radiation-exposure labor!
– The present system of society is premised on victimization of workers’ health, as is clear from the radiation-exposed labor at the site of nuke disaster: let’s change the very social system!
– Let’s demand decommission of all the nukes!
– Let’s steer for denuclearization and demand a through and radical review of the energy policy!
– Let’s press the Rengo (JTUC) to retract its pro-nuke resolution!
– Let’s fight together for decommission of nukes!
Workers of the world, unite! Long live the Mayday! Let’s fight together!