JRCL Slogans for the
Spring Labour Offensive 2000

Win a militant upsurge of the spring offensive 2000!
Denounce the Rengo leadership scheming to enmesh trade unions into corporate organizations!

A.

Break the massive restructuring! Smash unprecedented scale of wage cuts and sacking!
- Smash every cut in wages! Never allow bosses to use the pretext of 'depressed business'! Smash reductions in bonus and allowances! Never allow them to delay or cancel the payment! Win equally much higher wages!
- Oppose forcible 'work-sharing' and consequent reduction in pay!
- Stop factory closures and job cuts by means of mergers and divisions!
- Oppose mass-scale changes to worse in forms of employment! Never allow regular employees to be replaced with the casual, part-time, or dispatched!
- Fight back against the introduction and expansion of 'achievement / capacity based pay'!
- Denounce big monopolies deserting small and minimum size companies! Never allow them to victimize the concerned workers!
- Fight back against mass reduction in personnel by central / municipal authorities in the name of 'administrative reform'!
- Denounce the Rengo leadership accepting wage cuts and co-operating with restructuring!

B.

Oppose Obuchi's policies to help restructuring for saving monopoly capital! Never allow the government to revise the social welfare systems to worse in the name of 'self-reliance'! No to further expropriation from the masses!
- Never allow the government to help restructuring by means of the 'industrial reboosting law'! No to 70 trillion yen bailout by the public fund for banking and construction companies!
- Block bills for revising the pension system! Stop introduction of the 401-k of Japanese version!
- Never allow further expropriation from the masses by enforcing the nursing-care systems! No more expense for medical service! Stop revising to worse the employment insurance system!
- Stop increasing the rate of consumption tax under the pretext to use it solely for social welfare!
- Stop reactionary revision of the Trade Union Law!

C.

Stop Japan's nuclear development!

- Denounce the JCO nuclear criticality accident at Tokaimura! No to prolonged operation of outworn nuclear plants in disregard of safety! No to pluthermal operation!
- Denounce concrete-related accidents in JR companies! Stop conspiracies engineered over the railway system!

D.

Stop building US-Japan bilateral war operating systems for aggression! No to reactionary revision of the Constitution! Stop every neo-fascist reaction!

- Stop the emergency legislation! No to lifting the freeze on SDF's participation in the main tasks of UN peacekeeping forces!
- No to a new US military heliport at Nago in Okinawa!
- Oppose the reactionary revision the Fundamental Law of Education!
- Oppose every coercion of the national flag and anthem!

E.

Never allow trade unions to be enmeshed into corporate organizations in the name of 'participation in corporate governance'! Win militant strengthening of trade unions!

- Never allow the Rengo leaders to make a complement from below to the ruling order in the name of 'building a social safety net'! Fight it out aiming for deconstruction of the Rengo!
- Denounce the JCP-affiliated leaders in the NCTU attempting to join the industrial patriotic movement!
- Fight back against the 'globalization' that is in fact impositions of American standards! Fight in solidarity with workers over the world struggling against the 'globalization'!

Obuchi's three-way coalition government is now in a frantic rush to strengthen the Japanese neo-fascist ruling order! Fight it out aiming to overthrow it!

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