Showing posts with label decontamination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decontamination. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Man with backbone 〜 mailman goes to work at Fukushima plant




Many workers are engaged in decontamination and decommission work in Fukushima. Someone’s got to do the job, but we can’t help feeling that the tasks are limitless. What goes through the minds of the workers?
 On Feb. 11, I had a chance to hear IKEDA Minoru (see photo), 62, who went to work at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant after he retired a post office. Ikeda, who was delivering mail in Tokyo on March 11, was so shocked at the enormous tremor that he had never experienced before in his life and the devastation at the Fukushima plant.
 “I had a comfortable life in Tokyo up til then,” Ikeda spoke at the event organized by “The Reality of Daunting Task at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.” “I wanted to see with my own eyes what is really going on in Fukushima.”
 As he retired in 2013, he chose not to seek re-hire after retirement but to go to Fukushima to do something related to the nuclear plant. Although it was difficult for people over 60 to land a job, he was able to find one at the second-tier subcontractor for decontamination work. (By HORIKIRI Satomi)

 除 染や福島第一原発の収束に携わる幾多の労働者たち。誰かがやらなければならない作業でありながら、果てしないという印象がぬぐえない。どんな思いでその作 業をしているのか。2月11日、さいたま市で「福島原発作業の真実」という講演会が行われた。主催は「原発問題を考える埼玉の会」。郵便局を退職したあ と、除染そして福島第一原発構内の作業員として働いた、池田実さん(62歳・写真)の話をきいた。池田さんは3・11のその時、東京都内で郵便配達をして いた。はじめて経験する大きな揺れと、その後に起こった福島原発の事故に、ものすごいショックをうける。「今まで東京でぬくぬくと生きてきた。福島で何が 起こっているかみてみたい」と2013年の定年を機に、再雇用の道を選ばずに福島へ。60歳を過ぎての採用は難しかったが、除染作業の二次下請け会社に就 職することができた。(堀切さとみ) 続き
 

Saturday, May 30, 2015

People object to lifting the specific evacuation zones, demand reassessment




 About 150 people raised their voices against lifting of the designated evacuation points (lawsuit demanding withdrawal of the standard 20mSv per year) in Minamisoma at an event held in Tokyo on May 9th. (See photo) The participants from all across the nation, including Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecutre attended the event to support the lawsuit against the lifting of the evacuation zones.
 The plaintiffs at the meeting explained one by one the reason to have joined in the lawsuit. The biggest reason, they said, is that their life was destroyed because of the nuclear disaster. While in many cases families were dispersed, others with young children became perplexed whether or not they should take refuge at a remote place. Such suffering has not yet faded away. Furthermore, the current situation in the designated area reportedly still had highly contaminated hot spots despite decontamination works, and the forests are left untouched as they can repeatedly get contaminated.  (By YUMOTO Masanori)

 ずさんな「避難 地点解除」を撤回せよ!~南相馬住民を応援する全国集会

5月9日、東京都文京区で 「南相馬の地点解除訴訟(20ミリ基準撤回訴訟)を応援する全国集会 in 東京」が開かれ、福島県南相馬市 をはじめ全国から150名が参加した(写真)。集会に参加した原告は、ひとりひとり訴訟に参加した理由を 語った。いちばんは、原発事故のおかげで生活そのものが破壊されたことだ。家族はばらばらにされ、特 に小さい子どもがいる家庭は遠方への避難をするかどうかで悩み、苦しんだ。その苦しみはまだ消えてい ない。そして、高線量地帯が除染が行われてもなお歴然と残っていること、また山林は除染すらできず手 付かずの状態であり、一時的に線量が下がってもまた上がるということが繰り返されているという状況が 報告がされた。(湯本雅典) 


Friday, August 16, 2013

Decontamination workers win “special allowance” after eight months of struggle




My name is Nakamura, and I used to work in decontamination of Fukushima. I appeared on Labornet TV in March to let people know about the facts about decontamination work. Twenty-five of our friends we shared the same meals got together to form a union. We demanded Kajima Corportaion and three other subsidiaries the special allowance for dangerous works that is supposed to be paid by the Enviornmental Ministry. It took us eight months, but we were able to hold a victory rally on July 28 in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture. Without the support from our sisters and brothers, support organizations, media workers, we would not have been able to win. Thank you so much. (By Nakamura, Denko Sogi) 
Photo: Promising solidarity after the second collective bargain.



除染現場の脱法ゆるさず~八ヵ月のたたかいで「除染作業手当」の支払い勝ちとる
私は、元除染作業員の中村です。今年の3月、除染現場の実態を一人でも多くの方々に知らせるべく、レイバーネットTVに出演させて頂きました。お世話になりました。ありがとうございました。同じ釜の飯を食った仲間たち25名で組合を組織し、元請け鹿島以下、上位三社に対し本来環境省から、除染作業員に支払われる特殊勤務手当の支払いを求めて闘いました。八ヵ月の時間を有しましたが、7月28日に福島県郡山市において、勝利報告会を開くことが出来ました。多くの支援者の方々、支援組織そして、メディアの皆様のご支援あっての勝利宣言でした。本当に当該一同、感謝の気持ちでいっぱいです。(電興争議・中村)
 *写真=第2回団交終了後のガンバロー