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Tozen Daigakus are back!
Tozen Daigakus are back with our first video by Gerome Rothman. In this short Tozen Daigaku Gerome discusses the use of AI when it comes to consultations.
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Tozen reaches deal with Shane over union-busting wages
TOKYO – The Tozen Union has successfully reached a settlement with Shane Corporation at the Central Labor Commission, resolving a long-standing dispute regarding wage discrimination against union members who participated in industrial action. The Core Dispute The conflict originated when three union members were awarded significantly smaller pay raises than their colleagues. The Tozen…
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Tozen fights back against Gaba’s vicious penalties
On Monday 4th December 2023, members of Tozen’s Gaba local took to the streets to protest and fight for their wellbeing. The video below includes speeches from organiser Louis Carlet, Gaba local President Musashi Sakazaki, and Gaba local General Secretary Mitch Brown.
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Mainichi Shimbun cover Tozen’s fight for 10% pay rise
Article written by 東海林智, and originally featured here. 「10％以上の賃上げを」非正規労働者ら、春闘に向け団体設立 非正規労働者らを多く組織する個人加盟が中心の労働組合や地域労組が4日、2024年春闘へ向けた共闘組織「非正規春闘実行委員会」を設立した。物価高による生活苦が社会に広がる中、一律10％以上の賃上げを方針に掲げた。実行委は「一人でも賃上げを求め声を上げることはできる。一緒に賃金を上げよう」と呼びかけた。
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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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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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東ゼン大学 – 契約形態でやられちゃった。Tozen Daigaku – Work contracts, and how companies screw you.
Tozen’s Louis Carlet delves into different types of Labour contracts, and discusses their pros and cons. 講師: ルイス・カーレットとオレン・フランクハム Presented by Louis Carlet and Orren Frankham
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Bread & Roses: Do sex workers really have a choice?
On March 30, 2022, NHK Web News ran a story on how women driven to financial hardship due to the corona pandemic are increasingly turning to sex work. (https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20220330/k10013558231000.html) The report notes that sex workers’ “growing presence in busy urban neighborhoods has spurred police to take enforcement action but also to assign case officers to…