- Japan's Auto Parts Industry May See Large Job
Cuts.
A worsening global auto market, tougher international competition and the growing number of Japanese manufacturers moving production overseas could lead to massive job cuts in the Japanese auto industry. Japan's auto industry could lose 143,000 jobs over the next four years, according to a recent labor union report that indicates ......
- Trade unions bite back
HEADNOTE Globalisation has dealt a serious blow to the international trade union movement but it is far from dead. The need for effective unions is even more urgent today, especially in Africa but can they survive the winds of change? Francois Misser attended the 17th World Congress of trade unions ......
- Railroading Mexican workers: privatization and
rebellion in Mexico's railyards.
In a desperate protest against the forces of globalization and neoliberalism - World Bank policies promoting privatization of railroads in countries throughout the world, the Mexican government's sale of the Mexican National Railways (FERRNONALES) to new private parties and the depredations of the new owners, consortiums of Mexican and U.S....
- Can Koizumi privatize Japan? The next wave of reforms
challenges the socialist state.
JAPAN'S Parliament passed a set of bills providing for the privatization of four public highway corporations. Privatization of the heavily indebted highway operators is one of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's flagship reform pledges. But as such pledges move towards implementation, his reform agenda is also taking on more radical features, ......
- Union densities, business unionism, and working-class
struggle labour movement decline in the United States and Japan,
1930-2000.
[Trade union leadership produces] bureaucratism and a certain narrowness of outlook.... [Trade union leaders tend to overvalue] the organization, which from a means has gradually been changed into an end in itself, a precious thing, to which the interests of the struggles should be subordinated [,eventuating in an] ......
- Koizumi's move: change uncertain in
Japan.
In a country often characterized by political apathy and government inertia, Japan's general election of 2005 was novel. For the first time in recent history, an incumbent prime minister ran and was re-elected on a platform that centered on a single, highly salient political issue. The election was effectively a ......
- ASIA PACIFIC: Koizumi's Move: Change Uncertain in Japan
In a country often characterized by political apathy and government inertia, Japan's general election of 2005 was novel. For the first time in recent history, an incumbent prime minister ran and was re-elected on a platform that centered on a single, highly salient political issue. The election was effectively a ......