Louis Carlet

Louis Carlet is the Deputy Secretary General of the National Union of General Workers Tokyo South, a union representing both Japanese and migrant workers, including overseas English teachers. Carlet is from the United States and moved to Japan in the early 1990s, originally working as a translator for a major Japanese newspaper and subsequently leaving that position to become a full-time trade union organizer. [cite web
title= Stranger in Tokyo, American Public Media ("Marketplace")
url= http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2005/08/04/PM200508043.html
series= Marketplace
serieslink= Marketplace NPR
airdate= August 04, 2005
season=
number= ] He has acted as an adviser to English instructors and others with work-related problems through the Japan Times - one of the country's leading English-language daily newspapers [cite web
url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20041214zg.html
title= Right side of the law
accessdate= 2007-07-01
publisher= The Japan Times
date= Dec. 14, 2004 ] [cite web
url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20041221zg.html
title= Workplace worries
accessdate= 2007-07-01
publisher= The Japan Times
date= Dec. 21, 2004 ]

Carlet organized the first "March in March" in Tokyo in 2005. The March aims to raise awareness of problems faced by foreign workers in Japan due to fixed-term contracts. Such contracts make employees vulnerable to arbitrary firings through non-renewal of their contracts. [cite web
url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070313a4.html
title= Foreigners march for worker rights
accessdate= 2007-07-01
publisher= Japan Times
date= March 13 2007 ] Simultaneous demonstrations took take place in Osaka(2006) and Fukuoka. The 2005 march drew about 300 participants and was covered by TBS television, the Asahi Shimbun and the Yomiuri Shimbun. [cite web
url= http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyo/621/faces.asp
title= Faces & Places - Q&A - Louis Carlet
accessdate= 2007-02-19
publisher= Metropolis
date= February 17 2006 ]

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External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VjonUVfUc0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnambufwc%2Eorg%2F NHK coverage of Nambu Press Conference (June 2007)]
* [http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2005/08/04/PM200508043.html "Marketplace" radio interview]
* [http://www.jca.apc.org/nugw_ts/ NUGW Tokyo Nambu]
* [http://www.nambufwc.org/ Nambu Foreign Workers Caucus]