Japanese base workers ready for all-day strikes

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Japanese base workers ready for all-day strikes
By Hana Kusumoto, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, December 9, 2007

TOKYO — With negotiations at an impasse on Friday, Japanese workers at U.S. bases plan to go ahead with all-day strikes later this week to protest their government’s plan to cut their pay.

The strikes will be spread out across three days, said Tsuneo Teruya, secretary-general of the Zenchuro labor union’s headquarters in Tokyo.

Strikes are set for Wednesday at Okinawa bases.

Misawa Air Base, Yokota Air Base, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni and Sasebo Naval Base, along with smaller installations not in Kanagawa prefecture, will see strikes Thursday.

Friday strikes are scheduled for Kanagawa prefecture bases including Yokosuka Naval Base, Camp Zama and Naval Air Facility Atsugi.


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