[APWSLMembers 833] ＜The Toyota related news＞ＮＯ．27

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     ＜The Toyota related news＞ＮＯ．27
                  Incidents in March <2011.4.22>
                   from APWSL・Aichi Group
       ：Abbreviations used：
ATU               ＝All Toyota Union
ATU・S          ＝citizens group supporting ATU
TMWU          ＝Toyota  Motor  Workers’  Union
TMPCWA     ＝ Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers　Association
APWSL         ＝Asian Pacific Workers Solidarity Links．
ＪＡＷＮ            ＝Japan Automobile Workers Network
L＆HNWNM＝Living and Health Network for workers in Nishi-Mikawa area

East Japan Earthquake, nuclear power plant disaster, and workers’ unity.

For all member of APWSL in each country.
I wish to express my gratitude for messages of encouragement and unity to 
APWSL Japan about the earthquake on March 11.
East Japan, damaged area is supplying area of not only food, electric power, 
but also manpower to the metropolitan area that centers on Tokyo.
There were labor union members and an activists among a lot of residents 
struck at the earthquake. It is said that a lot of families of the workers 
from East Japan working at the metropolitan area were struck. The support 
service to the stricken area including such workers is being promoted in the 
metropolitan area. It is necessary to demonstrate the worker's unity and 
support particularly at time like this.
In the support activities on which all labor union in Tokyo are promoting, 
the track fully loaded with goods sent from the whole country were promptly 
sent to the damaged area. It is done continuously still now.
Labor movement magazine "Labor information" started support donation 
activity together with providing information of damaged area, and the first 
portion was sent through "Tohoku labor union unity". APWSL Japan is also 
introducing articles on overseas media.
There is a group, which has been warning of danger of nuclear power 
generation for many years, and continued the movement, theory establishment, 
and document introducing. It is "Dandelion House( Tampopo sha )" of Tokyo. 
Volume and quality of information sent out from there far surpass those of 
the report by mass media, needless to say of the announcement by the 
government and by Tokyo Electric Power Company.
We introduced three support activities above.
Even though it is not systematical, continuance yet now, rescue fund, goods, 
and messages are being sent from this Aichi Prefecture by individuals or 
small groups through these groups.
And, auto manufacturers such as Toyota, Nissan, and Honda and a lot of parts 
suppliers also suffered from big shock and their factories are still 
stopping or decreasing production. It has brought a severer situation to not 
only the regular workers but also the non-regular workers.
So, ATU Chairman Mr. Wakatsuki proposed the following contents to Mr. Akio 
Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor.
Toyota Motor and the group companies
(1) must guarantee constant works to the subcontract companies, and 
compensate for the decrease.
(2) do not do regular worker's dismissal and not to stop renewal of 
non-regular worker's employment.
(3) do not allow the subcontract enterprise to dismiss the worker. Toyota 
must guarantee payment for them.
(4) do not deteriorate the working condition of workers of the companies.

With these demands, ATU declared struggle against Toyota to achieve the 
above-mentioned demand uniting with the union in the region where a regular 
and non-regular worker of a small and medium-sized small business were 
organized.
We think that such a difficult situation will continue long, and the road to 
the reproduction should not be  only to the situation before the earthquake. 
We should not pursue economic growth wholly-devoted of richness. It is 
necessary to review the energy policy of relying on nuclear power 
generation.
We noticed again the importance of bonds with the neighbor countries, 
neighbors, and working people with each other.
I think that it is necessary to make new value and social images on such 
bases, and the discussion about the way of new Japan will starts.
The issue changed a usual editorial policy considering the earthquake now. 
(April 21)

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