Tokyo Nambu’s university teachers branch, the University Teachers’ Union, will hold a forum on job security for university and college teachers on:

Sunday, June 25th 2006
1pm to 5pm
Tokyo Shigoto Center, Tokyo, Chiyoda-ku, Iidabashi 3-10-3
5th floor seminar room
http://www.shigotozaidan.jp/map.html

The job security of college and university teachers is under increasing threat -from cuts in salary, the non-renewal of contracts, outsourcing and attacks on our right to organise to protect and improve our working conditions. In the face of such threats, what ARE our rights? What can we learn from past and present disputes? How can we stop the tide of outsourcing? How, as committed professionals and trade unionists, can we secure our future?  Our two opening speakers will set the context, followed by questions and answers, and an open forum to discuss the issues.

1:00pm Registration
1:30pm Forum and Discussion: “Rights and Wrongs - the Issues Teachers Face Today”
3:00pm Workshops - Power Harassment, Challenging Conditions on Campus, The NIC Strike - learning from a dispute
4:00pm  Reports and final comments

All welcome! Admission:  500 yen voluntary contribution to cover costs.

To register in advance, and receive further details of the event and info about UTU, please e-mail: utu.forum@yahoo.com

We encourage all university teachers as well as all other members to attend this important forum. The issues university teachers face overlap with many of the issues that foreign and permatemp workers deal with.

An amended government ordinance entered force Thursday, banning companies linked to organized crime syndicates from sponsoring foreign singers and dancers entering Japan on entertainment visas.

The updated Justice Ministry ordinance is aimed at tackling human trafficking as foreign women who have entered Japan as entertainers have often been forced to work for low wages as hostesses in bars or nightclubs or to engage in prostitution.

http://www.crisscross.com/jp/news/374418