Showing posts with label JAL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JAL. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

JAL workers still fighting unfair dismissals from 2010


​​350 people gathered at the Bunkyo Ward Community Center in Tokyo on December 9th to show their support for 165 Japan Airlines (JAL) workers who were unfairly dismissed in 2010. The gathering included 32 of the unfairly dismissed employees who are still fighting to reach a fair settlement. On July 29th, two unions representing the workers, the Crew Members Union (Jouin Kumiai) and the Cabin Crew Union, accepted an offer from JAL to reinstate the workers as fixed-term contractors on a 2 year basis, which would leave the workers' jobs much more insecure than the permanent contracts on which they were employed at the time of their dismissal. At the gathering, the Executive Committee to Resolve the JAL Labor Dispute claimed that this offer is a way to increase the pool of precariously employed workers for JAL and to avoid having to comply with the more stringent labor protections that come with permanent employment. The JAL Dismissed Workers Union (officially abbreviated as JHU), another union representing the unfairly dismissed JAL workers, has also come out strongly against the 2-year contract offer from JAL, demanding that workers who wish to return to their jobs are allowed to do so and that all unfairly dismissed workers receive monetary compensation.

The Chair of JHU, Hiroya Yamaguchi, stated that in 2010, JAL illegally dismissed workers based on their age and medical conditions, as well as dismissing workers for engaging in protected worker organizing activity. Yamaguchi also alleges that JAL's stated financial reasons for the dismissals do not hold up. And that JAL hired nearly 400 pilots and flight attendants soon after the dismissals in question.

In addition to the unions, 13 national elected politicians, lawyers, and researchers gave their support to the unfairly dismissed workers.

Monday, March 6, 2017

No to union busting dismissal by JAL!



“It was JAL planes that deployed the Self Defense Forces to South Sudan last year, discretely. We cannot allow military use of civilian planes. The aim of the dismissal was to get rid of workers who speak up and to destroy the union.” The plaintiff leader of the dismissed JAL pilots and flight attendants, YAMAGUCHI Hiroya, spoke at the 7th annual general meeting of the National Alliance for the Reinstatement of Unlawfully Dismissed JAL Workers held on 16th February. More than 200 people gathered to support this 7 years long struggle. He was followed by UCHIDA Taeko, a dismissed flight attendant, who reported “80 percent of the plaintiffs are over sixty years old. Many of us have elderly parents to take care of. We need an early settlement and to recover our right and dignity.” 165 pilots and flight attendants were dismissed for redundancy on 31th December, 2010. The court case seeking reinstatement was lost in February 2015 at the Supreme Court. But that hasn’t stopped the workers struggle for justice. (M)
Photo: Yamaguchi Hiroya

JALの組合つぶし「整理解雇」を許さない！～7年目のたたかいに向けて

「昨年末に南スーダンへ自衛隊を運んだのは日航機です。それも内緒でやっている。
民間機の軍事利用を許してはならない」。原告団長の元機長・山口宏弥さん（写真）
は語気を強めた。「JALの整理解雇は、ものいう労働者を排除し組合をつぶす目的
だったのです。いま怒りのエネルギーがたまりにたまっています」。2月16日に開か
れた「JAL不当解雇撤回国民共闘第7回総会」（東京・文京区民センター）には200人
を超える人々が集まった。7年目の長期争議になったJALのたたかい。客乗原告代表の
内田妙子さんは「原告も60歳以上が8割になった。親の介護を抱える人もいる。早く
解決したい。そして人権・尊厳を回復したい」と訴えた。2010年12月31日に整理解雇
で首を切られたのは165人のパイロット・客室乗務員で、その不当性を争う裁判は
2015年2月に最高裁で労働者側が敗訴した。しかしたたかいは続いてきた。（M）

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Punished should be the Supreme Court: Protest against “unfair decision on JAL case”




On February 27, 2015, more than 600 people protested the Supreme Court against its unfair decision on the wrongful dismissal of Japan Airlines workers. The court failed to appropriately judge the case, siding with the JAL management. The plaintiffs, who were unfairly dismissed by the carrier, condemned the court, saying, “Down with the unfair decision!” and “Punished should be the Supreme Court!” and expressed their strong determination to continue fighting until all of them will be reinstated. ITOYA Kin-ichiro, the president of the National Federation of Dockworkers Unions of Japan who has supported the fired JAL workers, said, “The unjust decision of the Supreme Court was fixed from the start. The court simply rejected our appeal. The International Labour Organization (ILO) recommended discussions for their reinstatement, and the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) has supported their struggle against the unjust dismissal. Such an unfair decision is never accepted in the world as the Supreme Court has abandoned judicial conscience”. (News for reinstatement of unfairly dismissed JAL workers No. 432)



裁かれるべきは最高裁～「JAL不当判決」600名超で怒りの抗議行動

2月27日、600名超の抗議の声が最高裁を包みました。JAL不当解雇撤回裁判でまともな審理もせず上告棄却・上告不受理の決定。最高裁の暴挙は許さない！裁かれるべきは裁判所！と糾弾するとともに、不当決定に屈することなく不当解雇撤回・全員の職場復帰まで闘うとの強い意志を示しました。冒頭、主催者を代表してあいさつした国民支援共闘の共同代表、糸谷全国港湾委員長は、「最高裁の不当決定は結論ありき、短期間で上告を門前払いした」ILO（国際労働機関）は職場復帰に向けた協議を勧告、ITF（国際運輸労連）やIFALPA（国際定期操縦士協会）も高裁判決を批判し不当解雇闘争の支援をしてきた。不当決定は世界に通用しない」と述べ、「最高裁は司法の良心を投げ捨てた」と不当決定を糾弾しました。（JAL不当解雇撤回ニュースNO.432）
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