Doro-Chiba Quake Report / March 8, 2012/ issue 40
International Labor Solidarity Committee of Doro-Chiba (National Railway Motive Power Union of Chiba)
March 11, Fukushima Anniversary
Solidarity with all anti-nuke movement of the world over!Stop outsourcing and casualization!
TANAKA Yasuhiro
President of National Railway Motive Power Union of Chiba (Doro-Chiba)
Dear friends all over the world!
We are now witnessing the desperate attempt of capitalists to survive by transferring all burdens onto the shoulders of working people through an overall neo-liberal offensive in the face of an aggravating sovereign crisis. They are trying to generalize outsourcing and disguised subcontracting in every sphere of social relations and production with the aim of destroying working class unity and trampling on the pride of working people and human dignity. With the pathetic slogan, “Money instead of life,” capitalists are rushing to put “90% of the entire workforce” into irregular employment.
The March 11th commemoration day is drawing near, while more than three thousands remain missing, hundreds of thousands of people are exposed to cold winter wind, tens of thousands are forced to leave their hometowns to defend the lives of their children from radioactivity and still millions of working people in the affected and contaminated areas have been struggling against unprecedented hardships for a year. All of Japanese society is filled with profound indignation against the neo-liberal agenda, the roots of this disaster, and is faced with a growing swell of struggle, firmly determined to overthrow the society from the bottom up.
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant is still dumping huge amounts of radioactive material daily, without exact knowledge of the whereabouts of the melt-down fuels, and cascade of breakdown of measuring instruments leads to blind operation of stricken reactors. TEPCO and the Noda administration have no effective means of preventing a possible collapse of the pool of used fuels in No.4 reactor. They are only cooling all stricken reactors by water, the result being a large amount of contaminated cooling water. Their total incapacity and irresponsibility is being publicly exposed.
It was recently revealed that some of the nuclear plant workers have died of cardiac infarction and nodules have been found in the thyroid glands of many children. Working people, 99% of the entire population, are already fully aware of the deceitful intention of the government: the shameless declaration, “settlement of the accident”; the ineffective de-contamination campaign attempt; fake efforts at a “stress test”. After all, we have succeeded in producing a situation in which only two of the 54 nuclear plants in Japan are actually in operation. This is the unprecedented outcome of the history of Japanese nuclear energy development.
We shall never allow the reopening of nuclear plants. We shall achieve the complete abolition of nuclear plants, no matter how long it takes.
On March 11th 2012, the first commemoration Day of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, we are gathering in Koriyama, situated in the heart of stricken Fukushima prefecture. Our slogans are: Solidarity with all anti-nuke movement of the world over; Abolition of all nuclear plants; Stop outsourcing and irregularization (casualization); For the revival of the class struggle labor movement to confront the global economic crisis and mass dismissal. We’ll fill the rallying park with union flags.
Below is the resolution passed by the regular committee meeting of Doro-Chiba on February 26th.
We are determined to stand in the forefront of the mounting wave of anti-nuke struggle, to further strengthen our union in the struggle and to crush the JR plan of over-all outsourcing of inspection and repair work as well as station service, scheduled to start on April 1st.