Showing posts with label Japan Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan Post. Show all posts

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Breakthrough for rectifying the gap – Victory for 190,000 non-regular postal workers at Tokyo District Court



 
 On September 14, 2017, the Tokyo District Court made a groundbreaking decision in favor of plaintiffs who are temporary postal workers filing suit for rectifying the gap they have suffered on the basis of Article 20 of the Labor Contract Act while doing the same work as full-timers – their salaries being less than half of those of full-timers, their bonuses being minimal, no benefits for them, and few holidays. The court decided Japan Post violates the article, saying, “Damages for lost benefits for the year-end and new year work and housing allowances are approved. Failure to grant summer and winter holidays and sick leave to contract postal workers is an irrational treatment and an unlawful act”. The court ordered Japan Post to pay a total of 920,000 Japanese yen to the plaintiffs. They are members of the Postal Industry Workers Union (PIWU). The victory is not necessarily perfect but can be a breakthrough for rectifying the gap suffered by non-regular postal workers. This also leads to the rectification of the gap suffered by non-regular workers in all industries. (TS, PIWU)



19万郵便非正規社員」格差是正の道開く~郵政「労契法20条裁判」で勝利判決!

9月14日、東京地裁は正社員と同じ内容の仕事をしているのに、賃金は半分以下、
ボーナスは雀の涙、諸手当はなし、休暇は少ないという郵便局の期間雇用社員(非正
規)が、労働契約法20条をたてに起こした訴訟に対して、画期的な判決を下しまし
た。「年末年始勤務手当と住居手当の損害賠償を認める。夏季冬季休暇、病気休暇が
契約社員に与えらえないことは、不合理な取り扱いにあたり、不法行為が成立する」
と日本郵便が労働契約法20条に違反していると認定しました。計92万円の支払い
を命じました。この裁判は、私が所属している郵政産業労働者ユニオンの組合員であ
る期間雇用社員が起こしたものです。完全勝利とは言えませんけれど、19万人に及
ぶ日本郵便の非正規労働者の格差是正の道を開く判決を勝ち取りました。それは郵便
局だけでなく、全ての業種で働く非正規労働者の格差是正につながるものです。(郵
政ユニオン・TS

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

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)
 Youtube



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、524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)