Casualisation and contracting-out are eroding working conditions around the world. But workers are fighting back. This week in Japan, casual postal workers have filed a court case asking for equal pay as permanent employees. Nearly half of Japan’s 400,000 postal workers are casual, and receive only about one-third of the wages of full time staff. Turkish workers also demonstrated against the increasing use of a temporary work scheme called “taseron”. Unions blame the scheme for deterioration in working conditions in Turkey. Many of the miners who lost their lives in the recent Soma mine disaster were employed as “taseron” workers. Listen to AAWL’s radio program about the Soma mine disaster.
Casualisation and contracting-out are eroding working conditions around the world. But workers are fighting back. This week in Japan, casual postal workers have filed a court case asking for equal pay as permanent employees. Nearly half of Japan’s 400,000 postal workers are casual, and receive only about one-third of the wages of full time staff. Turkish workers also demonstrated against the increasing use of a temporary work scheme called “taseron”. Unions blame the scheme for deterioration in working conditions in Turkey. Many of the miners who lost their lives in the recent Soma mine disaster were employed as “taseron” workers. Listen to AAWL’s radio program about the Soma mine disaster.
