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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
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Important Message to All ALC Teachers on a GM Contract.
TO ALL ALC STAFF ON A GM CONTRACT On August 3rd, ALC management announced that it is proposing new contracts to its employees on GM contracts. They have proposed two options. Be aware that this is only a proposal and that management cannot force you to change your contract. You have the right to refuse…
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Tozen organiser interviewed by scientific journal, Nature
In the article ‘I feel disposable’: Thousands of scientists’ jobs at risk in Japan, about universities terminating workers on fixed-term contracts, Tozen organiser Louis Carlet was interviewed and gave an explanation on how universities have responded to the 5/10-year rule. Read the full article here
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Bread & Roses 「同一労働同一賃金」―裁判所はどう判断している？ Japan’s same-work-same-pay law fails to live up to its promise
Many laud Article 8 of the brand new Part-time/Fixed-term Employment Act as Japan finally recognizing the principle of same-work-same-pay. But one word in that article gave me pause: unreasonable. The Part-time/Fixed-term Employment Act (enacted in April 2020 for regular firms and small businesses a year later), prohibits unreasonable treatment of employees on regular and irregular/contingent…
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May 27, 2022, Interac Protest
In May 2021, Tozen Union entered into a labor dispute with Interac. Interac has failed to make progress on workplace safety and improved wages. They refuse to provide our union with basic financial information justifying their refusals. They then retaliated against Tozen by firing our member last month. Our campaign to improve working conditions at…