From the article of 'Petrel'
No.588 / July 7, 1996
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We appealed to mount a counteroffensive against the new promotion system
Report of representative election struggle of Japan Postal Workers' Union
The rally representative election of Japan Postal Workers' Union almost ended. The election struggle of the worker faction that sued the class unity of postal workers in various places called the sympathy of the worker. The report from Shizuoka, Osaka, and Hyougo is printed.
Contents
The betrayal of the headquarters was denounced
On behalf of site worker's voice
From Shizuoka
Introduction
We ran for the Japan Postal Workers' Union nationwide rally representative election in Shizuoka this year, and opposed "Employers and employees cooperation" route of the Japan Postal Workers' Union headquarters, we fought this election struggle in which we hoisted largely worker's class standpoint.
A nationwide rally of this year is a rally which the delimitation of the 50th times should commemorate. However the fight of the worker faction in the whole country hangs to going that it becomes a rally which should be commemorated of the compilation of "Betrayal" that is symbolized in the introduction maneuver of the new promotion system by "Employers and employees cooperation" of the headquarters, or the rally which should be commemorated that it is breaking of this ugly maneuver of the headquarters to pieces and it is pushing of the headquarters aside and it becomes a starting point where a new work movement is produced. We report in fought Shizuoka bearing the responsibility.
The discussion about the new promotion system is a nationwide rally of the subject.
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications emphasizes the ability principle and the results principles in gAction indicator" that is a basic strategy of the personal management, and is scheming the introduction of "efficiency wages" which becomes the base, and they proposed "New promotion system" that becomes "Fair promotion according to results" and "Improvement of treatment according to staff's ability etc.".
To calling this conserve authorities, Japan Postal Workers' Union headquarters that has been prolonging the negotiation probably because of dreading the repulsion of the office union member at first, is aiming at "New promotion system introduction approval" in the rally by "Joint work" with the conserve authorities now, because reflecting was able to come from "Degree of maturity" (it was to have become more faithful as house dog of reflecting.) related to employers and employees by "Trust" and take the mortgage to which the assessment of the manager is impartially done and this new promotion system is "good" system which becomes "It is equal from the equality of the result of the chance".
Basis of new promotion system is that "Manager" individually evaluates the worker by "Point" according to "Assessment item" and is promoted the worker by the order of the total point. In addition, there is the point system of "My neck is tightened for myself" type that the worker oneself sets "Target" named "Challenge adding point" and try to aim at the target breakthrough. Because the personal management element is reflected in "Assessment item" dark though naturally, and a site manager assesses the worker, it is the system that the staff who has "Worker's class consideration" is "not possible to be promoted".
The Japan Postal Workers' Union headquarters is advertising in case of it is system which can be promoted by "Do not link with the official position" and the promotion to most significant even by "non-position" to sparing. However, if the competition spreads to the office, the competition for gOfficial position" (In the administration chief and the section chief representation, etc. section chief and directors of a bureau finally) competition becomes violent naturally. As a result, the person who cannot "succeed" becomes a left "system linked with official position" from "Promotion".
It is necessary to answer "No approval a lot overwhelming" in an ugly maneuver of the headquarters which plans "Approval a lot overwhelming" (Japan Postal Workers' Union newspaper) by "Employers and employees cooperation" with giving "candy" such as "Passage measures" by which the generation of the clod is promoted in "Unconditional" in the adjustment amount improvement of 5,000 yen to collection and delivery of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the first two years as a means.
We called the worker holding fast to the class standpoint.
The one which the new promotion system gives to the worker is reinforcement of the office rule of the conserve authorities (through reinforcement of site manager's personal management power) and compulsion of competition to worker and destruction of unity of worker, contrary to the advertisement complaint of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Japan Postal Workers' Union headquarters.
The representative election was fought for a lot of years, we opposed a lot of betrayals of the headquarters, and had asked to the counteroffensive in Shizuoka. Five persons ran from the Shimizu branch and one person ran from the Shizuoka south branch in the representative election at this time to denounce the betrayal of the headquarters which calmly helps the introduction of the system by which the unity which should be called the life of the labor union is obstructed. This year, there was one person's candidate on the standpoint of "Opposite the new promotion system" from the Hamamatsu branch.
In the election war, it becomes an advertisement means with a main election official report and original poster.
Oppose the introduction of "New promotion system" and efficiency wages that flappe the discrimination, dividing into parts, and the competition! Let's fight for the abolition of the pay system!
Denounce the Japan Postal Workers' Union headquarters that cooperates in the work condition cutting down, under the name of "obstructing privatization"!
Crush the amalgamation maneuver by which Japan Postal Workers' Union surrenders to All Japan Postal Services Labor Union in all aspects!
We had sued that we hoisted of the nationwide union slogan of these Socialist Workers Party to the front side and clarified the necessity of the fight by which aims at socialism by entitling, "The worker requests true socialism", from worker's class standpoint to the union member. We called regaining in union member's hand as for Japan Postal Workers' Union. by eliminating the degenerated managing staff that sold over worker's profit to the conserve authorities and developing the class fight by the worker by distributing 1,500 posters by handing and mailing etc.
Let's aim at a new work movement and continue a tenacious fight!
I am writing this election struggle report making gElection result" of just putting out a hand now. Mortifying has a lump in my throat as I write. Moreover, I am resented. I am regrettable very much if it is thought that the power of the worker faction is large a little more. The result of the election is 24%(six person average) in the number of votes and the numbers of votes are 750 votes from about 1,100 votes, 870 votes on six person average. Sects opposite to Hamamatsu are 1,200 votes in next mark and "Official recognition candidate" is 3,250 votes or less and the lowest is 2,750 votes, and the number of effective votes falls more than last year by 200 votes by 3,550 votes.
It was almost a result of the average in the vote rate and both number annually. However, the one mortified in above all is not to carry the voice of the worker faction from the class it is in principle standpoints to an important rally by which the introduction of the new promotion is asked. The strategy, if we adjust the candidate in the Shimizu branch to one person, it was possible NO of one vote to vote in the rally. We did not choose such methods and election obstruction of petit bureaucrat of branch is as usual.
However, a new bud begins to appear on the other hand, too. In the Shimizu branch, the voice of the criticism to the Japan Postal Workers' Union headquarters of the introduction execution of "Overall duty system" goes up from the union member openly and this was not before.
If we holds fast to worker's class standpoint and continue the activity tenacious and in principle, I believe us to be able to organize angry of the worker who will explode surely in the near future hard. Therefore, we hold out of mortifying of this and a new work movement holds out to provisions for tomorrow aiming.
(Postal worker, Shimizu branch)
Almost leftist winning
The district headquarters and authorities become pale!?
From Hyougo
The increase of the abstention person is a dangerous signal.
The election of a Japan Postal Workers' Union of the 50th times nationwide rally in the Hyougo district was fought for constant 14 by 22 persons' candidates. In the breakdown, sects of the right wing or the middle are nine persons, the person in a standpoint near the Socialist society sect or it is five persons, other leftists also include also by us and are 8 persons.
The Socialist society system occupied the high rank five persons and the right wing occupied the winning nine persons below to the result.
The number of vote form distributions is 5,822, the vote total were 4,391 votes and the numbers of effective votes were 4,060 votes, the numbers of invalid votes were 224 votes. blank ballots were 107 votes.
First noticing from the election result might be many of the election abstention person. The analysis of the last election pointed out the respect. It increases further compared with last time by about 200 votes with the vote total with about 250 and the number of effective votes at this time.
The will of the union member, that is, 1,800 persons is not reflected in union member several 5,800. Be not to be likely to distributed not the abstention but the election form though it might be the big cause of the decrease of centripetal to the union that another one cannot be overlooked. The election of the labor union has neither time nor the place unlike the national administration election etc. The union director distribute election public relations and vote form by using lunchtime, after work ends or the free time of work and collects these. However, because director's becoming person decreases gradually, concentration of load on a part of director. Besides, when the work reinforcement is done and the hand free time of work disappears almost, it is thought that it is also enough that the worker not informed of the election increases.
About the decrease of centripetal to union and the decrease in union function, the decrease in the number of votes is serious problems and it means the decrease in energies of the union.
Thing that do not be.
The next characteristic is that it is the low rank winning person and the number of votes of next mark was very little well. While the low rank winning person acquired 2,377 votes, next mark is acquisition of 2,163 votes. The difference is a difference of only 214 votes. It is understood that the year before last is a difference of 436 votes, last year is differences of 559 votes, and the difference contracts very much. Especially, Mr. K of the head of the secretariat of "Kansai name note trial report association" the character of the next mark is significant. This Mr. K is a symbolical character at anti-Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the center of anti-Japan Postal Workers' Union in Kansai. He is a character never elected for the right wing of Japan Postal Workers' Union. The next mark of last year was this Mr. K and the low rank winning person was then district chairman. The differences are 559 votes and it is not particularly few compared with the ordinary year. However, the rumor "It was possible to make there was so no difference with Mr. K but the responsibility taken" of the retirement of the district chairman there immediately after that by youth of 54 years old by 559 votes and finding employment getting a position a private company ahead of district chairman and that Mr. K's differences was plausibly gone around.
Contrasting in the respect is an election the year before last. It is a district chairman at that time at the time of the low rank winning person and differences with the character of the Socialist society sect system of next mark are 436 few votes from last year. However, the character of the Socialist society sect system of this next mark is a character and elect the high rank at the ordinary year the election of this year actually shines to the second place winning. Therefore, the power of the right wing was shown off by dropping when deciding that the right wing dropped even in case of the high-ranking winning person at the ordinary year.
In the election of this year, the character never elected might be given as he was lucky and elected by chance. I sees though the right wing panics.
I think that the repulsion and angry of the worker to the work reinforcement and the personal management without bounds like delivery at new promotion system and the nighttime between these etc. reflect in here.
What is the Socialist society sect doing?
The third characteristic is that the candidate of the society sect system decreased. Because the candidate of the leftist the amount other which decreases increases, the number of the entire candidates is almost the same. However, in the composition of the rally representative mass of Hyougo, the right wing is increasing to clearness. It can be said that a right-wing color becomes strong the speech and voted on the Hyougo district in the rally.
Fight of our Socialist Workers party
Well, we became joint struggles of Mr. O of "Workers" and former SWP members' Mr. I with me also this year. Mr. I was the 17th by 1,975 votes place, Mr. O was the 18th by 1,868 votes place, and I was the low rank of the 22nd by 1,568 votes place. The vote rate was almost the same though the amount and the number of votes to which 3 person and vote total had decreased were decreased.
We distributed 1000 posters to General post office and Telecommunications official residence with the bureau as electioneering. To our regret, the reaction of the worker did not have such the one. However, Posts and Telecommunications authorities reacted very sensitively. For instance, When we do the poster scattering under eaves in the post office on the day of rain, we were driven out saying that "Do not do the poster scattering in the site", we got making the poster scattering in localized torrential rain unavoidable.
Well, I want to assume finishing off the report of Japan Postal Workers' Union rally representative election by introducing sentences put on my election official report at the end.
"Opposite introducing of 'New promotion system' and efficiency wages that fuels the discrimination, dividing into parts and competition! Though it is said independence, symbiosis, and the contribution, what is independence of union that only follows to the authorities measures, delivery at nighttime, seven digit ZIP code etc.? Where is Symbiosis, the union is setting of the competition with the worker of delivering to home together with Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and intensification of competition in Posts and Telecommunications workers by new promotion system? A Japan Postal Workers' Union central headquarters is contributing to the facilitation of the worker rule by Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Do not make Struggle, Unity and Victory a dead language. The class reproduction of Japan Postal Workers' Union!"
(Nitta, Hyougo)
We exposed the essence of efficiency wages
Both numbers of votes and rates improve
From Osaka
"I am opposite to efficiency wages. All relations worsen when becoming these kind of things" Recently, a young worker who had done gTransfer" from another section was speaking. The representative election was heard, "How do you think of the efficiency wages?" I hard that at a certain day when the representative election is in the midst and intervals of work. The voice the outside "Work became tight" was heard from every worker. They have talked after knowing I am running.
Big issue of Japan Postal Workers' Union nationwide rally of this year is about introduction of efficiency wages. The efficiency wages is a system to suppresses the total wages of the worker and to flap the competition of the worker. Though it is a system not accepted easily for the worker, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Japan Postal Workers' Union headquarters try to force the acceptance by the excuse that it will bring workers worth living. However, they are all cheating and it was the one which we did not admit at all.
There was an office meeting in the start in June. It was gNew promotion system." not to mention the theme. Because Japan Postal Workers' Union held fast to "Policy system" route to "Employment is defended" straightening, the head of the branch started the story. Because the manager evaluates the worker if efficiency wages was introduced, there is a problem that whether he can "impartiality" evaluates us or not. However, 5,000 yen was said that thousands of yen was able to be won as "Treatment improvement of the generation of the clod" as "Treatment improvement of the mail worker". I was going to question on the content body "Treatment improvement" at that time. However, I easily questioned on the pay total by "New promotion system" when increasing or decreasing because there was no time. The head of the branch is "Do not understand" and "Please think selfishly." Even if how much is said that "Treatment improvement" is brought, he is not answered even to such easy problems clearly.
The district organizer was done later. They also were preparing considerably and it was difficult to find fault with it. They had become frantic to introduce efficiency wages by using all the ways.
One of the discussions is the one "Improvement of the amount of the promotion adjustment". It is an article whether it is uncertain how many persons on the whole do "Promotion" though this is raise in wages at "Promotion" and pay as a result goes up as the whole compared with present which does not understand well. Moreover, such "Material" is distributed at that day and is put on the discussion without our being examined enough. Because the discussion was done on the inside without time, "Question" was not able to be done deeply.
"Enhancement of complaint processing organization" is one of the reasons for the acceptance of efficiency wages. It is the one said that this will save the worker that there is dissatisfaction in the promotion. The problem is "The person in question should prove it." and that is a problem only of the person concerned even if the lawsuit is admitted and it is without relation of the unity of the companion. When you pursue this respect, the director in the district answered, "No, such problems are not to be going to cause the complaint to be admitted in the future". Indeed, such possibilities cannot be denied. However, if the situation changes, the possibility that opposite "Decision" can be given to the same problem cannot be denied.
The problem of "Manager education" was discussed. Though the Japan Postal Workers' Union headquarters explains that the manager on the site will come "Impartiality" evaluation because Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications does them in "Education". However, is even the education of the ministry proper a problem? For instance, was not it done under the arbitrary decision preceding of the ministry proper in the problem of "Delivery at nighttime of the resistered mail"? Is not "Education" does know to such parties and known though says then? I pursued them like this. Then, the director in the district answered, gNo, the delivery is necessary at nighttime of the resistered mail as the improvement of service" and he said that it was necessary to compete with the home delivery service. Here cannot come when said like this plainly and the phrase of two be succeeded. However, I think that I had to question even on this repeatedly when thinking later, to the way "Improvement" is done based on what grounds under the competition with the home delivery service though it is said that "Improvement" of something pay will be done by the new promotion system.
The question of the one came out, that is, gTreatment improvement of the generation of the clod". "Improvement" accompanies the change to the eighth class system, is nothing dividing into the second class A and B of a present the sixth class system in "New promotion system" by the second class in this, and the first class divides into first class A and B. For instance, half the number of the person at present in the second class is adjusted to the second class B and about 3,600 yen is provided. There is a question that "The one of the second class is the possibility to go up to the first class and goes up in that case for about 7,000 yen when present. However it goes up only by going up to the second class B only for the about 3,600 yen of the half, doesn't it?". On the other hand, the director said, "The man became the second class B will be going up the first class A soon". We do not understood what meaning "Soon". Really the worker actually gets making "Naturally" the object of "A personnel record" though it is about to be said to go up and gPromotion" is decided depending on the result.
Besides this, there is the question that why does pay fight none and is "Improvement" done on the inside with which "employers and employees is conflicting in the class", "Is it likely to become the man relation of the office unfriendly, even if there is a worker who will work "peacefully" because the ability of "Staff guidance" is being asked by the official position person?". Only the insistence "Improvement" of the district is emphasized because it was a discussion in time shortage as a whole and it cannot be said that I can have done the exposure enough.
It was a result that we were able to have "Discussion" included what is pay several times. The possibility to put up the candidate in "Full the constant" has come out. The activity person who was fighting in another bureau was getting indignant that a radical union ideologist thinks only about the profit of their unions "as same as petit bureaucrat of union". I believe that the view is opened if we keep honestly acting from the above-mentioned.
I feels the thickness of the wall of the headquarters sect by about 20 percent as for our vote result. However, having acted up to now in the office was not useless to compare last year and for the number of votes and vote rates to increase in some measure. I were talked to "On this year, I put vote though I did not put last year". Hereafter, I want to continue the activity which stands in the starting point.
(Sugihara, Osaka)