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, by AOKI Kotaro , IWAMOTO Nana , LI Promise, YAMADA Taro
In Japan, part-time and temporary workers account for nearly 40% of the workforce but have historically been ignored by the country’s trade unions. This spring, 16 unions came together to demand a collective wage increase for nonregular workers.
The Spring Offensive, an annual campaign in (...)
, by MATSUMOTO Chie
Delivery workers in Japan are fed up with Amazon Japan’s practices that make accidents and injuries more likely by increasing delivery volume and speed. They are now organising unions to take on Amazon. Here is their story.
In his 40s, Susumu Adachi (not his real name) has been delivering (...)
, by KIHARA Tamiyuki, YOKOYAMA Tsubasa
The nation’s largest trade union group announced it would not support a specific political party in the Upper House poll this summer, a decision that will have a huge impact on the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s electoral strategy.
Ever since it was formed in (...)
, by SoraNews24
Most strikes by public transport workers follow a similar pattern - the workers protest, the government accuses them of betraying the public, the public sides with the government. In Okayama, Japan, bus drivers are using a different strategy. They continue plying their routes except they do (...)
, by WALKER Gavin
The growing youth movement against Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is disrupting Japan’s conservative status quo.
Since the earthquakes and a nuclear meltdown in Fukushima hit eastern Japan in March 2011, fissures have opened up across the surface of the Japanese archipelago — and across the (...)
, by Asian Solidarity School of Japan
Protest in front of Pakistani embassy in Tokyo
June 27th, 2012, Asian Solidarity School of Japan did solidarity action with Hunza 5 and Faisalabad 9 in front of the Pakistan embassy in Tokyo.
Kenji Kunitomi spoke to second secretary of the Pakistan embassy in Japan, Mr. Nadiem Bhapti (...)
, by Osaka Social Forum
Osaka Social Forum 2012
September 15-16, 2012
Another World is Beginning! Another Osaka is Possible!
The first Osaka Social Forum (OSF) was held in March 2010 . More than 1,000 people joined the two-day forum featuring speeches, musical performances, “distant exchange” over (...)
, by FUKADA Takahiro
The Occupy Wall Street protests spreading across the United States landed in Tokyo on Saturday, as hundreds of people gathered to protest against corporate greed and social inequality.
In addition to decrying the widening wealth gap between the nation’s haves and have-nots, demonstrators (...)
, by Osaka Social Forum
Osaka Social Forum 2010
Date:March 21-22, 2010
Venue:
March 21 (Sun): Kita Kumin Center (Osaka Municipal Kita Ward Center) (http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/shimin/page/0000016598.html)
March 22 (Mon): L-Osaka (Osaka Prefecture Labour Center) (http://www.l-osaka.or.jp/pages/access.html) (...)
, by KAZUAKI Nagata
JOB SECURITY, SOCIAL INSURANCE DEMANDED Foreign workers rally in Shibuya for equal rights
Foreign workers staged a rally in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on Sunday as part of their annual spring labor offensive, calling for proper and equal treatment on par with Japanese working conditions. (...)
, by TOSHIHIKO Ueno
The new rallying cry of nonregular workers may become “Precariats of the world, unite!”
“Precariat” is a new Japanese word combining the English words “precarious,” referring to the insecurity of part-time and contract work, and “proletariat.”
Part-time workers dubbed “freeters” and (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Call for support to the homeless people of Nagai Park at Osaka faced with eviction on 5th February The Japanese Embassy in France refused to receive delegation of NO-VOX! No-vox delegation visited the Japanese Embassy to hand over the petition in solidarity with homeless people of Nagai Park. (...)
, by Movements
The Osaka city government announced the eviction of homeless people of Nagai Park for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics which will be held in August. Evacuation will take place on 5th February.
In Osaka, more than 700 homeless people are living in parks. Main reason of their (...)
In modern Japan, the urban-industrial underclass has always been at the mercy of state labor policies and market fluctuations, finding work when and where it benefits big industry, barely surviving the rest of the time. The lowest rung on this shaky social ladder is occupied by two groups. The (...)
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