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Slogans for the Spring Labour Offensive
2006 - No to expanded introduction of performance-based pay! Oppose attempts to abolish the periodic pay raise system! - No cuts in wages! No deprivation of allowances or benefits! No reduction in the receipt of the corporate pension! - Win a big raise in wages for casual workers including the part-time and the contracted! (2) Oppose sackings, transfers, redeployments and loans of employees accompanying restructurings in monopolies! - Oppose attempts to worsen the forms of employment or work! No more generalization of contracted or dispatched labour! - Oppose the extreme intensification of labour with the mass reduction in the personnel! Oppose the forced overtime labour with no pay! Denounce the intensified control of labour! - Denounce monopolies intensifying their expropriation of minor-sized companies! (3) Oppose the Koizumi-led 'structural reform' deserting the unfortunate! - Stop the enactment of an 'Administrative Reform Promotion Bill' and a 'Marketization Test Bill'! - Oppose the offensives to cut jobs and wages in central and local governments under the pretext of 'reform in the civil service and the total personnel costs'! Stop the attempt to deprive public workers of rights and benefits by branding them as 'the roots of all evil'! Break through the unprecedented offensive to destroy pubic workers' unions! - Oppose the unreserved dismantlement, 'privatizations', of public services! Denounce the postal privatisation! Fight back against massive sackings accompanying the privatisation! - Don't sell out the treasury of the postal savings and life insurances to American companies! - Stop the plan to raise income and consumption taxes! - Smash the worst revision in the pension, medical and social welfare systems! - Fight back against the intensified expropriation of the working masses under the pretext of 'breakthrough of the financial crisis'! (4) Oppose the revision of the labour codes in the name of 'deregulation in labour'! - Stop the enactment of a 'Labour Contract Law' aimed for destruction of trade unions and 'freedom in sacking'! - Oppose a 'white-collar exemption' to be introduced in the labour time regulations! - Fight back against the effective elimination of the minimum wage system! (5) Fight against revision of the Constitution! No revision of the Fundamental Law of Education! Oppose the offensive to build a new US-Japan military alliance! - Denounce the full participation of the Japanese state in 'Bush's war'! Oppose the actual strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance by defining it as an offensive and defensive alliance against China! - Denounce the continued deployment of the Japanese military to Iraq! Oppose the 'transformation and realignment' of the US and Japanese forces! Oppose legislation giving the status of a ministry to the Defence Agency! - Stop the enactment of a national referendum law for the Constitutional revision! - Oppose the forced respect for the Rising-Sun flag and the Reign-of-the-Emperor anthem! Denounce the authorization and adoption of ultra-nationalist school textbooks! Smash the neo-fascistic reform in education! - Stop the legislation of a 'crime of collusion'! Stop the enactment of a 'Basic Law for Counter-Terrorism'! Overcome the distortion and oppression of struggles by the official leadership! - Denounce the Takagi leadership of Rengo cooperating with the Koizumi government in the offensive against public workers' unions! - Denounce the Rengo labour aristocrats supporting Maehara's Democratic Party taking the lead in the destructive offensive against public workers' unions and the Constitutional revision! - Fight by overcoming the revisionist distortions by the Zenroren leadership calling for 'cooperation with Rengo'! - Expose the degeneration of the central JCP leadership busy proposing alternative policies with the signboard of 'reform for a capitalism with good rules'! Win a militant revival of the Japanese labour movement by fighting back against the destructive offensive against trade unions! - Fight for a 'de-construction' of Rengo turned an Industrial Patriotic Association of today! - Win a militant strengthening of trade unions! Organize a trade union at any workplace! Fight it out aiming at the overthrow of the Koizumi-led neo-fascist government! |