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	<title>The Interac Union - Tokyo General Union</title>
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	<description>…home to union members working at Interac Co, LTD and “Maxceed”…</description>
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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. http://www.generalunion.org/alt/news/741 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>Interac Found Guilty of Unfair Labor Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Osaka Labor Commission has found Interac guilty of an Unfair Labor Practice against the General Union and off interfering in union business. Click here for updates from the General Union. http://interac.generalunion.org/news/735]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2010/07/26/interac-found-guilty-of-unfair-labor-practice/</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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		<title>Interac and Tokai Board of Education found guilty of illegal dispatch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from the General Union After more than six months of union action, Interac and Tokai Board of Education have been found guilty of illegal dispatch by the Aichi Prefectural Labor Board. Watch this space &#8211; full story in the coming weeks.]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2010/03/09/interac-and-tokai-board-of-education-found-guilty-of-illegal-dispatch/</link>
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		<title>Interac and pregnancy; Part Two &#8211; The  Michael Collison Case::</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure what it is about Interac and pregnancy, but they really don&#8217;t seem to be on the same page as the rest of the work force in Japan. The case in point is concerning Michael Collison and I first learned about his case on the website of a Japanese activist named Arudou Debito. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2009/12/29/interac-and-pregnancy-part-two-the-michael-collison-case/</link>
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		<title>Attention ALTs!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Interac tries to pressure you into signing up for Kokumin Kenko Hoken, don&#8217;t do it! Kokumin Kenko Hoken is for people that are self-employed or unemployed. If you sign up for Kokumin Kenko Hoken, you will be forced to back enroll into the system up to the time that you started working in Japan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2009/11/12/attention-alts/</link>
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		<title>An open letter to Interac concerning health insurance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to the management of Interac (as well as Maxceed and Selnate) November 5th, 2009 To whom it may concern (including Kevin Salthouse and Denis Cusack), My name is Erich, and I am an executive of the ALT branch of Tokyo Nambu&#8217;s Foreign Workers Caucus. I worked for Interac  from September of 2005 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2009/11/05/an-open-letter-to-interac-concerning-health-insurance/</link>
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		<title>Interac and Pregnancy: Getting Fired for Being Pregnant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year when I was in the Osaka based General Union, we received an email from an Interac ALT who was rather upset because she had been fired for being pregnant. Martina (name changed) was set to have her contract renewed with her school where she was loved by her students and teachers. Her contract [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://interacunion.org/2009/09/21/interac-and-pregnancy/</link>
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