2003 03 (march)

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Inside the “Voice”

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News from the General Union (Kansai & Tokai), NUGW Tokyo South, Fukuoka General Union, Kumamoto General Union, and the Language Teachers ’ Union of Sendai

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General Union On February 28th, 2003 NOVA received two presents from the GU. One, a suit at the Osaka District Labour Commission claiming unfair labour practices regarding NOVA’s unfair pay rise for the branch chair. The other was a suit filed with the Osaka Bar Association Human Rights Committee regarding NOVA’s socialization policy. The union is confident that we will win both cases and the response from the press and public has been highly encouraging. The Human Rights case was reported on several TV evening news programmes, and in major newspapers. The last time the General Union filed a

case against Nova was in 1994, over the company’s drug testing policy. On 25 July 1995, the Bar Association sent an admonition to Nova, saying enforced drug-testing was a human rights violation. Nova has never tested anyone, though this clause is still in the contracts. We are sure that the committee will again rule against the company. Our union has been campaigning on this issue for a few years now, and faced with Nova’s refusal to cancel the non-socialisation policy, we had no choice but to file this complaint. We hope that once these cases come to trial, NOVA’s history of ignoring union demands will become a thing of the past. More news to come as the cases progress.

As the General Union continues to grow, inside and outside of the Kansai area, it is becoming more difficult to achieve the 50% quorum necessary for our annual strike vote. Due to this fact a constitutional amendment leading to a representative system for the strike vote will be voted on at this AGM. We need a quorum for this vote to take place and therefore are expecting that all Kansai General Union members attend.

Tokyo-to, Minato-ku, Shimbashi 5-17-7-2F Tel: 03-3434-0669 Fax: 03-3433-0334 Email: nugw_ts@jca.apc.org URL: www.ktuf.org Tel: 022-261-4392 Fax: 022-222-7734 Email: ltus@generalunion.org

Osaka-shi, Kita-ku, Temma 2-1-17-3F Tel: 06-6352-9619 Fax: 06-6352-9630 Email: gu@generalunion.org URL: www.generalunion.org

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Nagoya-shi, Chikusa-ku,Uchiyama 3-28-2-5F

Tel/Fax: 052-735-9704 Email: tokai@generalunion.org URL: www.generalunion.org

Kasuga-shi, Kasugabaru Kitamachi 1-3-24-207

Tel/Fax: 092-573-3094 Email: GZC05153@nifty.ne.jp

Email: kumamoto@generalunion.org


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