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Article: JR East, Kokuro union sign blanket deal to end all labor disputes.
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- Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2006
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Nov. 6--TOKYO -- The National Railway Workers' Union, known as Kokuro, and East Japan Railway Co. signed a blanket reconciliation agreement on Monday to end all 61 labor disputes between them, heralding the mending of ties between the two parties involved in bitter disputes since the breakup and privatization of the national railway operator in 1987.
With the deal concluded, the last outstanding labor issue yet to be solved would be the treatment of 1,047 former Japanese National Railways employees, many of them Kokuro members, whom JR East and other JR companies have refused to hire.
The signing ceremony between the union's branch for JR East workers ...