Job ‘reform’ helps corporate giants kick workers out

Initiated by PM Abe calling for a conversion from the “excessively-sustained” employment system to more flexible labor mobility, a “reform” in the current system is gaining momentum. It, however, will only help create more unstable jobs under the pretext of the conversion to higher labor mobility.

Sony workers in ‘downsizing room’ attain job assignment

As a result of a union’s struggle, a Sony’s subsidiary company in Tagajo City, Miyagi Prefecture, gave new job assignments to all 14 workers who had been transferred to a so-called “downsizing room”, Akahata reported on April 14.

‘Abenomics’ widens gap between the rich and the rest

Media praise the continued depreciation of the yen and high stock prices as an outcome of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s “Abenomics” economic policy. However, as the government’s own research indicates, this policy is actually promoting the further polarization between the rich and the rest.