Union can change deteriorating workplace ~ Japan Post workers confess on Labornet TV

 “Were you able to tell all?” Asked after the program was aired, YOSHIHARA Shinji appeared content and said, “I did 100%.” The postal worker spoke on the internet TV of his experience of being bullied at the workplace and diagnosed with adjustment disorder, which cornered him into suicidal thoughts.

 Another worker, KANEKO Takanobu, who was on a casual contract also testified on Labornet TV how remorseful he felt when he was terminated with a single phone call. KURAHAYASHI Hiroshi of Japan Postal Workers’ Union talked about a podium at Shin-toshin Post Office, which caused karoshi suicide. Workers are forced to stand on this podium for making professional errors and to state regrets in front of some 300 colleagues. They are also target of verbal abuse. Workers so fearful of having to stand on this podium start crying, they say. Ten years have passed since the postal service was privatized, but deterioration of the workplace, which was caused by profit pursuit, was so serious beyond imagination. “The union saved me,” Yoshihara said. “It’s the management that is heavily responsible, not ourselves. Don’t endure it. Talk to the union.” (By Labornet TV project)

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荒廃した職場を変えるのはユニオン～レイバーネットTVで 「日本郵政特集」

「思いのたけを言えましたか？」、放送終了後の質 問に「100％言えました」と満足

そうな吉原真次さん。職場でいじめに遭い、適応障害を発症し自殺寸前まで追いつめ

られた思いを、5月24日の「レイバーネットTV」で赤裸々に語った。非正規 の金子孝

信さんは電話一本で突然の雇い止めにあった悔しさを話す。倉林浩さんは、「過労自

死」を起こしたさいたま新都心郵便局 の「お立ち台」について言及した。仕事のミ

スがあると、300人の 職員の前で「お立ち台」に立たされ反省を迫られ、罵倒され

る。 「お立ち台」に上がるときは震えて、途中で泣き出す人もいるという。民営化

10年で「利潤追求」にひた走る日本郵政の荒廃した職 場実態は想像以上だった。

「私は郵政ユニオンに救われた。悪い のは管理職で自己責任ではない。泣き寝入り

はやめ組合に相談し よう」と吉原さんは強く訴えた。（レイバーネットTVプロジェ

クト） 

 放送アー カイブ（68分）

It doesn’t mean that we have been annihilated from history!

 

Although Deputy Prime Minister ASO Taro acknowledged at the budget committee meeting that it was a mistake to have segmented and privatized the Japanese National Railways, we strongly demand that the Liberal Democratic Party apologize to our Kokuro (National Railway Workers’ Union) members whose lives were ruined or who got killed in the process of such a reckless privatization and segmentation of the JNR.

 More than 30 years ago, the Kokuro, to which I belonged, went through a hard struggle, protesting against privatization and segmentation. LDP and Japan Railway Co. pushed through segmentation and privatization of JNR by doing their utmost to undermine Kokuro through destructive attacks on the union with total disregard for law and reason and demobilizing the protest movements.

 In this process, more than 7,000 workers were denied employment by the newly privatized companies, and eventually 1,047 workers were dismissed.  Most of them were members of Kokuro and Zendoro (National Railway Locomotive Engineers’ Union) who opposed the privatization. Since then those unduly dismissed workers and their families have had to continue fighting for their reinstatement. (KUGE Itaru, ex-Kokuro member)

 Photo: Kuge at the time of privatization of the JNR, second from right

われわれは歴史から抹殺された訳ではない！～麻生副総理、国鉄分割・民営化の誤り

認める

無謀な国鉄分割・民営化によって人生を破壊された仲間たちに、命を奪われた仲間た

ちに、自民党政権が謝罪することを要求する！自民党政権の副総理が、国会で国鉄分

割・民営化の誤りを認めました。……３０数年前、私の所属していた国鉄労働組合は

国鉄の分割・民営化に反対し、組織をかけて闘っていました。それに対して、自民党

政権と国鉄当局は、 法と道理を無視したあらん限りの組織攻撃によって国労を弱体

化し、反対運動を解体しながら分割・民営化を強行しました。この過程では７０００

名を超す労働 者が新会社への採用を拒否され、最終的に１０４７名の労働者が解雇

されましたが、そのほとんどは分割・民営化に反対した国労・全動労の組合員でし

た。そし て、不当解雇された１０４７名とその家族は、その後２０年にわたる解雇

撤回闘争を闘わねばならなかったのです。（元国労組合員・久下格） 

＊写真＝当時の写真（右から二人目が筆者）