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Victory: Union Wins Labor Management Ending Labour Dispute With Gaba
Tozen and the Gaba Workers Union are proud to announce that the union and management concluded a Labour Management Agreement with Gaba Corporation on Thursday, July 24, bringing our labor dispute to a satisfactory resolution.
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GABA Dispute Update
The Tozen GABA Local leafleted the GABA Tokyo Learning Studio this morning in protest of their unfair discipline towards local president Tyler Christensen. The GABA Local also leafleted the Yokohama LS on Saturday night. On each occassion the union leafleted to both clients and instructors there – to let them know about Gaba’s persecution of Tyler. The responses were really…
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Tozen Report: All Day Dispute Action Against GABA
Last Friday, Tozen GABA Workers Union took its first all day action against GABA’s threat to fire Tozen GABA Workers Union President Tyler Christensen. We began at 6AM to leaflet GABA Shinagawa Learning Studio. We moved on to Gaba corporate HQ at 9AM. There as we handed out leaflets, GABA representative Satomi Odaka emerged from the building. The union…
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Tozen Gaba Local President Tyler Christensen Under Fire
Tozen Gaba Local President Tyler Christensen has recently been disciplined with a warning letter by Gaba for staying at the office too late. Tyler is a model Gaba instructor. He is hard at work every day providing excellent lessons, even putting in unpaid overtime to keep his clients happy and the company well informed of…
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Tozen Gaba Local Wins Labor Management Agreements with Gaba
This summer the Tozen Gaba Local took three steps forward in our campaign to improve working conditions at Gaba. We signed an agreement to raise wages. We signed an agreement guaranteeing the right of instructors to change their home LS at any time without interference or discrimination from the company. We signed an agreement to…
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Tokyo Area GABA workers unionize
2012年9月28日 〒151-0062 東京都渋谷区元代々木町 30-13 グラスシティ元代々木 4F 03-5790-7000 (TEL) 03-5790-7145 (FAX) 株式会社 GABA 代表取締役社長 増田崇之殿 GABA Corporation President Takayuki Masuda 全国一般東京ゼネラルユニオン 執行委員長 ルイス・カーレット 全 国一般東京ゼネラルユニオン GABA 労働組合 執行委員長 ジェイソン・コームス Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union President Louis Carlet Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union GABA Workers Union President Jason Combs 組合結成通知並びに団体交渉の申し入れ Notice of Union Formation and Demand for…
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Gaba ‘contractor’ status under fire from staff, courts
“They told me I would be legally required to teach 160 lessons per month for visa sponsorship at a rate of ¥1,500 per lesson. But that didn’t happen.”
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Nichii Gakkan Company to Launch Takeover Bid for Shares of Gaba Corporation
Nichii Gakkan Company announced that it has decided to launch a takeover bid for shares of Gaba Corporation.
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Nichii Gakkan To Launch Tender Offer For Gaba
Nichii Gakkan Co. said Friday it will begin a tender offer to purchase shares of Gaba Corp., an operator of English-language conversation classes, in a move to bolster its education business. Nichii plans to spend up to 10 billion yen to make Gaba a wholly owned subsidiary.
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Gaba teachers challenge ‘contractor’ status
Union fears employment model could mark first step on slippery slope for eikawa firms Long accustomed to being ignored, being forgotten proved too much to take for unionized teachers at Gaba language school. On Oct. 4, the General Union registered an official complaint and request for an investigation with the Ministry of Finance’s Securities and…