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東京国際フランス学園による不当解雇に敢然と立ち向かう！
～長年、生徒に食事を作ってきた食堂職員に突きつけられた解雇通告～ 2022年12月、東京国際フランス学園（Lycée Français International de Tokyo）内の食堂で長きにわたり、たくさんの生徒たちの食事を作ってきた東ゼン労組UPL支部の2名の組合員は、昨年、突如仕事を奪われました。
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Tozen Union Rallies to Restore Trade Union Rights of Direct Hire ALTs
On Sunday, January 29, Tozen Union, our legal team, and our supporters held a rally to launch our campaign to restore Trade Union Rights to Direct Hire ALTs. In April 2020, local civil service law was amended and direct hire ALTs around the country were classified as “fiscal-year appointees.” Prior to this change, direct…
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Bread & Roses: Labor Commission Grants Rights to Uber Eats Union
SNA (Tokyo) — US President Joe Biden ensured that December 2, 2022, will go down as a dark day in the history of the US labor movement. He signed legislation that forces railway unions to accept a miserable contract, robbing them of their right to strike for better conditions. A week prior, the Tokyo Labor…
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Bread & Roses: Bosses Can’t Force Workers to Quit
SNA (Tokyo) — Kata-tataki, or taps on the shoulder, indicate a series of actions a boss takes to drive a worker to quit without outright firing them. It establishes that the subsequent contract termination is mutually agreed, as opposed to a unilateral and contestable firing. The legal jargon for such “shoulder tapping” is taishoku kansho. In this…
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Shane English School must pay for unfairly firing Adam Cleeve…again
On October 19, 2022, Adam Cleeve concluded an in-court settlement with Shane English School, thereby ending a seven-year labor dispute that included him getting fired twice. Adam had joined Shane Corp. in 2015 and soon joined the Tozen Union Shane Workers Union, due to his belief that all employees should unionize. He became executive president…
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よだかれんさん、東ゼン事務所でスピーチ / Yoda Karen gave a speech to Tozen
(日本語 / English) 10月30日、新宿区長候補（野党統一候補）よだかれんさんが、大変お忙しいなか、山吹町の東ゼン事務所に立ち寄って、東ゼン秋季大会で心強いスピーチをしてくださいました。彼女が新宿区長になったら、日本初のトランスジェンダーの区長誕生となります。「ちいさき声をすくい上げる新宿」をスローガンにがんばってもらいましょう！ On October 30, Shinjuku Ward oppositional mayoral candidate Yoda Karen took time out of her busy schedule to stop by the Tozen office in Yamabuki-cho and give a heart-warming speech to Tozen Union’s Autumn Meeting. If she becomes mayor of Shinjuku, she will be the first transgender mayor in Japan. Let’s…
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Tozen organiser quoted in Yahoo news article about Twitter’s mass layoffs
Yahoo news journalist Konno Haruki recently interviewed Tozen senior organiser Louis Carlet about how workers should respond to dismissals from foreign-affiliated companies, after Twitter’s mass layoffs. Find the article here (日本語 / In Japanese )
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Toyo Keizai ranks Tozen’s Ibuski number one labour lawyer in Japan
Tozen Union’s Attorney Shoichi Ibuski topped celebrated labor lawyers throughout Japan, including Ryo Sasaki and Natsume Ichiro, to win the top post in Toyo Keizai’s poll of best labor lawyers in the country. In the same poll, Tozen Union’s frequent opposing lawyers Shione Kinoshita and Ran Mukai ranked second and third best HR lawyers.
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Los sindicatos de Apple crean una red de solidaridad mundial, de Maryland a Tokio pasando por Barcelona: qué demandan en España
La oleada de sindicalismo que atraviesa al sector tecnológico, especialmente en EEUU, ha copado titulares en los últimos meses. Las votaciones para formar sindicatos en almacenes de Amazon primero, y el mismo procedimiento en las tiendas de Apple después, ha llevado a diversos expertos a hablar de un fenómeno que ya cuenta con sus propios…
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Tozen Daigaku: How bosses screw with your work hours! 東ゼン大学：会社による労働時間制度変更時の注意点！
Attorney Kinoshita Tetsuro talks us through various changes to the work hour system. 木下徹郎弁護士によるに労働時間制度の様々な変更点について。 Overview of the working time system(日本語) 労働時間制度の概要