Louis Carlet

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Louis Carlet is the Deputy Secretary General of the National Union of General Workers Tokyo South, a union representing both Japanese and migrant workers, including overseas English teachers. Carlet is from the United States and moved to Japan in the early 1990s, originally working as a translator for a major Japanese newspaper and subsequently leaving that position to become a full-time trade union organizer. [1] He has acted as an adviser to English instructors and others with work-related problems through the Japan Times - one of the country's leading English-language daily newspapers[2][3]

Carlet organized the first "March in March" in Tokyo in 2005. The March aims to raise awareness of problems faced by foreign workers in Japan due to fixed-term contracts. Such contracts make employees vulnerable to arbitrary firings through non-renewal of their contracts.[4] Simultaneous demonstrations took take place in Osaka(2006) and Fukuoka. The 2005 march drew about 300 participants and was covered by TBS television, the Asahi Shimbun and the Yomiuri Shimbun.[5]

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  1. ^ Stranger in Tokyo, American Public Media (Marketplace).
  2. ^ Right side of the law. The Japan Times (Dec. 14, 2004). Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
  3. ^ Workplace worries. The Japan Times (Dec. 21, 2004). Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
  4. ^ Foreigners march for worker rights. Japan Times (March 13 2007). Retrieved on 2007-07-01.
  5. ^ Faces & Places - Q&A - Louis Carlet. Metropolis (February 17 2006). Retrieved on 2007-02-19.

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