Japanese department store workers strike in Tokyo
The union sought to allow workers to blow off steam while limiting the strike’s impact on the company as much as possible.
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The union sought to allow workers to blow off steam while limiting the strike’s impact on the company as much as possible.
TOKYO: The shutters were down on one of Japan’s best-known department stores this week in the sector’s first strike for six decades, sparked by fears that its mooted new US owner will slash jobs.
Labor union members at Japanese department store operator Sogo & Seibu Co. went on strike at its flagship Tokyo store Thursday in a rare work stoppage amid job security concerns stemming from the parent company's plan to sell the chain to a U.S. fund.
Tokyo, Aug 31 (EFE).- The union of employees of a well-known shopping center in Tokyo began a strike Thursday against the acquisition of the company that owns it by an American firm, the first protest of its kind in the sector in six decades. Some 900 workers at the Seibu Ikebukuro shopping center did not …
The shutters were down on one of Japan's best-known department stores on Thursday in the sector's first strike for six decades, sparked by fears that its mooted new US owner will slash jobs.