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東ゼン大学 – 産休とマタハラ Tozen Daigaku: Maternity Leave and Harassment
弁護士加藤佳子東ゼン労組執行委員長奥貫妃文は産後産前休暇とマタハラパタハラを講義する。 Attorney Kato Keiko and Tozen President Hifumi Okunuki teach us about the law and legal cases around maternity leave, and maternity and paternity harassment.
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東ゼン大学 – 有給休暇 Tozen Daigaku – Paid Leave
Tozen Organisers Louis Carlet and Orren Frankham discuss the paid leave system in Japanese workplaces.
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東ゼン一日行動ビデオ Tozen All Day Protest Videos
東ゼン一日行動(上) 神田にあるシェーン英会話本社前で抗議行動を始めした。 The first part of Tozen’s All Day Protest. Starting with the Shane Worker’s Union protesting at Shane English School Head Office in Kanda, Tokyo. 東ゼン一日行動(中) 神田にある神田外語大学院前で抗議行動を始めした。 The second part of Tozen’s All Day Protest. Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) Union protesting at Kanda University of International Studies in Kanda, Tokyo. 東ゼン一日行動(下) 銀座にあるインタラック本社前で抗議行動を始めした。…
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東ゼン大学ー職場の組織化 – Tozen Daigaku – How to organise your workplace.
Louis Carlet, Tony Dolan, and Orren Frankham present a Tozen Daigaku on how to safely organise your coworkers, what to be careful of, how to build up a union, and their own experiences in building unions. Japanese Labour Union Act Japanese Labour Relations Adjustment Act Japanese Labour Standards Act
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Bread & Roses: Are Actors “Laborers”?
SNA (Tokyo) — Suit-clad office workers, long-haul truck drivers, ramen shop food preparers, fake priests at faux churches, insurance solicitors, rice paddy farmers, maid cafe servers, security guards, nurses, train conductors, schoolteachers, nursery school caregivers, bank tellers, garbage collectors, plumbers, paralegals, social workers… How many megabytes would it take to list all jobs that occupy…
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Bread & Roses: Osaka Rules Against Taxi Dispatcher for Transphobic Dress Code
SNA (Tokyo) — We were told that the 1985 Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA) marked the “dawn” of a new age for female workers in Japan. No more could employers blithely set up special marry-and-leave retirement systems for their female employees, a practice that had been considered perfectly legal. Several amendments boosted the reach of…
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Begunto returns to striking for the first time in 13 years!
From the Begunto Website: On September 14th Begunto entered dispute after weeks of negotiations that went nowhere. On September 16th we had our first striking member. The purpose of the strike is to realize the Union’s demand that our member, Matthew Wiegand, be reinstated in his job. We aim to protect members against unfair dismissals.…
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置いてけぼりの夏の真ん中 ー2021盛夏、コロナとオリンピックの渦のなかでー Midsummer 2021 – Left to be sucked into the corona-Olympic vortex
奥貫妃文の詩。 A poem by Hifumi Okunuki. (English is below the Japanese.) いまは、いったいいつなんだろう。 ここは、いったいどこなんだろう。 東京都新宿区、奥神楽坂の我が家から歩いて3分。 中国人のジャンさんが営む中華料理レストランがあった。 私と夫は頻繁に通っては、裏メニュー「黒酢きゅうり」を頼んでいた。 2021年8月の現在、その店は、もうない。 夜遅くまで客足が絶えず、楽し気な声で満ちていた店は、真っ暗なまま。 がらんどうになった店の入口は、落ち葉の吹き溜まりになっている。 壁には「テナント募集」の張り紙。それもすっかり色褪せ、 今にもはがれそうにカサカサ、カサカサ、と音を立てている。 新しい賃借人が入るのは、いつのことになるだろうか。
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五輪中止オンライン抗議アクション Anti-Olympics Live Stream Candlelit Protest
On Friday 30th July 2021, members of Tozen held a candle-lit online protest calling for the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics.