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2014 November 5 - 11 [LABOR]

Union activists rally to block revision of Worker Dispatch Law

Labor unions on November 5 assembled in front of the Diet building to protest the government attempt to ease the rules on the use of temporary workers.

Representing the National Confederation of Trade Unions (Zenroren), the National Trade Union Council (Zenrokyo), and other independent unions, 150 union activists took part in the action.

Zenroren President Odagawa Yoshikazu expressed his determination to block the government-proposed bill to revise the Worker Dispatch Law as the revision would drive more workers into poverty.

Zenrokyo Secretary General Nakaoka Motoaki called on participants to increase their efforts to create a society where workers can live and work with dignity.

Earlier on the same day, the ruling Liberal Democratic and Komei parties agreed to pass the bill in the present Diet session scheduled to end in three weeks. Based on the agreement, the ruling coalition unilaterally entered into discussions on the bill in the House of Representatives labor committee.

Japanese Communist Party representative Takahashi Chizuko at the committee meeting on the day criticized the bill as a Swiss-cheese bill full of holes and demanded that the committee conduct thorough discussions or throw out the bill.

Past related articles:
> Major national centers of trade unions stage sit-in against rollback in labor law [October 29, 2014]
> What will come after revision of Worker Dispatch Law? [October 27, 2014]