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	<title>The Interac Union - Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union Tozen ALTs</title>
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		<title>Collective Bargaining Demands Submitted to Interac/Maxceed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Demands for collective bargaining were submitted today to the offices of Interac/Maxceed/Selti. Remember that time you asked your boss about Shakai Hoken and you were ignored? Or that time you asked about the possibility of a pay raise next year and you were brushed off? Or that time you asked why you only get partial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2011/12/11/collective-bargaining-demands-submitted-to-interacmaxceed/</link>
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		<title>Why is Interac so scared of this flyer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 1st, at an Interac training session in Miyagi, a member of the Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union (aka Tozen) was politely handing out a version of this flyer to the ALTs that were arriving for training. Members of management came outside to tell the union member, who is not employed by Interac, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2011/10/08/why-is-interac-so-scared-of-this-flyer/</link>
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		<title>Renewal Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello all, It is that time of year again! Time for the mad scramble of March when good teachers everywhere are worried if their contracts are going to be renewed or not, otherwise known as the &#8220;ALT Shuffle&#8221;. Two things you should be sure NOT to do: 1) Do NOT let your employer force you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2011/03/06/renewal-time/</link>
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		<title>Open Letter to Kevin Salthouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Salthouse, I am glad to hear that the new Interac is &#8220;financially stable&#8221;. With this financial stability, I can think of no better way to move from &#8220;strength to strength&#8221; than by improving the working conditions of all of your ALTs. Here are a few suggestions that I personally think would benefit all ALTs: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2010/10/01/open-letter-to-kevin-salthouse/</link>
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		<title>Kevin Salthouse’s Response to Rumors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To: All instructors From: Kevin Salthouse, General Manager, Human Resources and Class Management 　 Division Subject: Response to rumors concerning the financial stability of Interac. Date: 　September 26, 2010 Earlier this month, I wrote a message in the ‘Interac-shin’ newsletter announcing that the Selnate Group was re-organizing into a new group under the Interac name. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2010/10/01/kevin-salthouse%e2%80%99s-response-to-rumors/</link>
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		<title>Changes in October</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you that did not get the memo, Interac is about to go through some big changes. I have heard two very different announcements on the subject. From Kevin Salthouse, we all have this PDF file stating that Interac will be going through a “new phase of operations” and that this is just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2010/09/26/changes-in-october/</link>
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		<title>Interac banned from Osaka prefectural projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross posted from the General Union. Let&#8217;s all work together for ALTs to be directly hired. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Interac has been found guilty of unfair labour practices by the Osaka Prefectural Labour Commission in July 2010 for refusing to hold collective bargaining with the General Union (full story here). Osaka prefectural ordinances prevent companies found in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2010/08/26/interac-banned-from-osaka-prefectural-projects/</link>
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		<title>Health Checks – They’re mandatory! Interac ordered to obey the law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from the General Union in Osaka: 5 Jul 2010 Health Checks – They’re mandatory! Interac ordered to obey the law Industrial Health &#038; Safety Act For many westerners, the idea of a state mandated health check smacks of a nanny state, and we are often reluctant to submit to the tests. While not all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2010/07/05/health-checks-%e2%80%93-they%e2%80%99re-mandatory-interac-ordered-to-obey-the-law/</link>
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		<title>Chiba city&#8217;s native speaker English classes canceled after ALT contracts found illegal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just more reason to unionize. Stop illegal dispatching and claim higher wages and better benefits. Don&#8217;t be taken advantage of by these middlemen and these Boards of Education that want to hire you without paying you what they should and without affording you what is rightfully yours under Japanese law. This &#8220;cooling off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2010/05/03/chiba-citys-native-speaker-english-classes-canceled-after-alt-contracts-found-illegal/</link>
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		<title>The ALT Scam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from the Fukuoka General Union. Throughout Japan Boards of Education have been moving away from the JET program in favour of outsourcing ALT jobs to dispatch companies. In Fukuoka it has come to the point that most BOEs subcontract out their work. This page is aimed to shed some light on the current systems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2010/04/08/the-alt-scam/</link>
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