![]() “The most urgent issue is to secure stable employment. Rengo has stepped up efforts to encourage labor organizing among “non-regular” workers, such as those on temporary contracts, part-timers and freelancers, a large share of whom are women. Japanese unions traditionally have mostly just represented “regular workers,” or people employed in full-time permanent jobs. In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, she said stable work has to be the top priority after the pandemic, which hit women and other vulnerable groups the hardest, in Japan and elsewhere. Tomoko Yoshino is the first woman to head Rengo, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation. ![]() ![]() TOKYO (AP) - The head of Japan’s largest labor federation says she is determined to listen to the voices of all workers in fighting for better wages and conditions. ![]()
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