Tokyo Nambu Deputy General Secretary Louis Carlet�was profiled under the people section of page three of the Mainichi Shimbun.

Japanese Link:
http://www.mainichi-msn.co.jp/shakai/wadai/news/20060730k0000m070121000c.html

The Summer 2006 edition of the National Union Voice has just been published, with updates on our Berlitz and Nova�Branches, as well as detailed information on your rights to Employee’s Health and Pension Insurance (Shakai Hoken), recent changes in National Health and Pension Insurance & social security treaties, and more.

At the Tokyo Shigoto Center on June 25, Nick Wood of NUGW Tokyo Nambu University Teachers�Branch welcomed NUGW Tokyo Nambu organizer Louis Carlet and activist Debito Arudou to discuss matters of interest to university teachers at the UTU Forum.

Messrs Arudou and Carlet, in complementary addresses, discussed the falling curve of workers’ job security as courts and the legal system fail to guarantee legal rights of foreign workers and employers reduce the lifetime employment system to temp worker status. Arudou documented the cynical ingenuity of employers in finding loopholes to circumvent protection in labor law, and Carlet described the introduction of temp worker status to foreigners and Japanese women, with the condition becoming more and more common among all former regular employees. Both speakers detailed the ongoing decline in job security and stressed the need for union membership and solidarity as last resorts to combat the worsening conditions of foreign workers in Japan.

Following are brief reports of the Workshops:

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