Name: 自由とサバイバル - フリーター連合 (Freedom and Survival - The Freeter Union)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:42:08.000Z
Duration: 30 min 51 s
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The Freeter Union is an individual membership union.

It does not matter how you work, anyone can join.

Freeters are included, but so are others.

Compared to other individual membership unions,

基礎受動態

there are many people working on non-regular contracts.

So-called “precariato”, those whose jobs and survival became unstable

due to the neoliberal economy from the core.

People ask us what are Freeters. I guess they like the word Freeters.

But it is really hard to explain what is it about.

We define it ourselves most of the times in terms of

the contracts being in behalf of the employers.

That is often we work as temporary workers,

independent contractors and you are more or less working in a

corporate environment like any other employee, but your contract is

a temporary one, meaning you have no rights what so ever.

But then again, there are other opinions saying that

in terms of our contracts with our employers.

It's more about our entire lifes, how the changes that

are taking place since the 1990ies in Japan are affecting us.

A lot of us are people who just refuse to enter

It's very difficult to try to explain where we stand.

in relation to these older more secure pasts.

Because a lot of us didn't choose it and a lot of us

refuse to join, a lot of us where part of a cooperation or

the whole landscape, the whole employment process of cooperations

So what was more like voluntary dropping out or voluntary freelancing

became more and more difficult to the point that our daily lifes

Not to say they're all the same (Mainstream Unions)

but separate unions developed for each company throughout the post-war era,

Perhaps out of fear that if the company were

to decline the union would follow its fate,

interests of the company could take priority over workers interests.

With some unions being exceptions, of course.

As an union for individual workers we are able to focus

But this is the advantage of all individual membership unions.

What makes the Freeter Union unique among unions

There is something unsettled? This is my impression. How should I say?

Tight dicipline and control isn't our style. Like...

Even with unions there could be top-down tendancies.

Like someone could be patronizing to others.

These kinds of unions could still work for its membership,

but there is already a power structure within the union.

You can't criticize or raise questions towards this person.

The freeter union isn't like that, is it?

Let's see: I sense that the people present at the time

when the freeter union became active in labor disputes

and those who understood its importance and joined later,

had been involved in movements in one way or another.

Up til then, that was the 3rd May Day, that this organisation coordinated,

but it has always just been about May Day.

There were not really other activities on a daily basis.

In 2006, the police arrested the DJ of the Sound Car and 2 demonstrators

After this repression many of the members spread and so

at the end, there were only three or four members left.

And a new movement came out of the repression.

The reason why I'm a member of the Freeter Union

that before I have also organised demos against war and poverty

I have organised a Demo against the war in Iraq and the

Freeter had that demo therefore, coincidentally, I was taking part.

I worked for his release and then I became a member.

From having observed oppression within movements at close hand like

macho leadership and its destructive effects,

efforts are being made constantly to ensure

There is a broad consensus to leave that culture out.

Due to extremely insecure jobs and lives, while having little or no savings,

members are critically effected by 'dry periods'.

It could mean not being able to pay rent and

forced out of home within a short period of time.

There are hurdles to applying for welfare which require assistance.

So the union is more then a work-centered association.

Sharing a will to life and survival and the need for each other.

in defending multiple aspects of our livelihoods is also characteristic of the Freeter Union.

I am working on the problem of living space, because

at the end of last year (2008) a lot of temp workers were fired.

How can the problem of unemployment be solved quickly?

Since this March (2009) we are building up the Freedom and Survival House.

So, we thought let's find suitable housing to make into a shelter,

and create minimaly exploitive workplaces together

We're initiating these kinds of projects right now.

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