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２５万円、それも、8週から１１週遅れで支払われていると知ったら、納税者は怒るだろう。
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（平成17年2月27日）
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http://www.gaijinpot.com/bb/showthread.php?t=9591

http://www.japantraveler.com/issues/0003/tidbits.html

Interac Inc. misses salary payments -
Japan Traveler has learned that salaries for
Kanto-area teachers were not paid on time in February.
Interac had notified teachers that only 40 percent would
be paid on Feb. 14 and the remainder at the end of the week.
But Interac paid nothing or very little on the 14th and only
a small portion on the 18th when the remainder had been promised.
The teachers we spoke with have since been paid their full salaries due
in February, but Japan Traveler was told this has been an ongoing problem
inside the company with it rotating the late payments to different
areas of Japan on different occasions. Our sources said the Japanese
Interac staff had been waiting longer for their salaries. While the salaries
remained unpaid, Interac had a large help-wanted ad in The Japan Times
for new teachers, and the company did not respond to our facsimile
addressed to the President, Yasuo Niiyama, and telephone call asking for an
explanation. Japan Traveler subsequently learned that Interac had been
successful, by means of angry threats of lawsuits, in getting at least two
Internet Web sites to remove postings from teachers discussing problems
at the school, including claims for massive
amounts of unpaid pensions contributions for Interac teachers.


http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/job/viewtopic.php?t=17473&highlight=interac

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/job/viewtopic.php?t=9614&highlight=interac

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/job/viewtopic.php?t=9559&highlight=interac

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/job/viewtopic.php?t=14684&highlight=interac

information source: former Interac contracted teacher
情報提供：元インテラック契約教師
以下リンク先よりペースト：
The Company That Wasn't There

June 10

Unable after weeks to get Interac and its slippery Chairman Seiichi
Matsumoto to agree to talks...or even to talk...even on the phone, Nambu
Interac Branch and several other Nambu activists went to Interac HQ in
Iidabashi Friday evening to demand collective bargaining.
We knew Interac HQ operates until 9pm so arriving at 7pm gave us plenty of
wiggle room. When we reached the building, however, it was all locked up and
the inside lobby was dark. Interac shares the building with several other
firms so we were perplexed.

Stepping back we could see lights on the second floor. We pressed the button
on the night intercom. Rain was falling steadily.
"Yeah."
"This is the Interac union. We're here for collective bargaining."

"I didn't hear anything about it. They all went home already."
"We can see lights on their floor."
And so it went - me and an unseen gruff man bickering about the right to
pass. He refused to budge and cut the connection. Most of us knew of Interac
management's breathtaking cowardice - but were they such scaredey cats that
they would hide in their office till 9? We later learned that they were
scareder still.
Concerned that they might use an escape route, we sent a couple of scouts
around to scour the base of the building for alternative exits. Garrett
found a locked door at the top of a dark stairs.
We were just about to post a sentry there with a cellfone when from the
darkness of the lobby a face appeared.
Through the locked door he explained how to get to the garage which has an
entrance. Being paranoid by nature I left a guard at the door in case the
instruction was a ruse to decoy us away from the front door while Interac
management snuck out.
The rest of us made our way to the garage entrance where a guard sat behind
a desk and window. I prepared to confront him but he hadn't noticed us so
with mouth still poised to speak we walked by.
"Wait a minute. I can't let you pass," said a familiar voice.
Our right of passage - not really what this phrase means - evolved into a
full-fledged debate: Greg proved he was an employee by showing his
gaitoh-shoh (foreign registration card); the guard demonstrated that Interac
had split by letting the phone ring.
Heated debate gave way to negotiations. I said let us go up and check the
second floor. The guard agreed on condition that one person alone go and
that I agree not to disturb any other company.
When the elevator doors opened I saw that Interac was indeed closed for
business. Everything was dark, locked and brand new signs said, "No
unauthorized personnel!" in Japanese and English. The lights we had seen
from outside were at the company next door.
Back down at the underground garage level I conceded to the guard that
Interac had left. The guard then made an admission of his own: "Well, they
usually work till 9 but this evening they were in quite a hurry to leave by
6. They even asked me to hold a package that was to be picked up after they
left." The guard even apologized for his arrogance. I apologized and
explained our predicament. I left my calling card.
So the entire HQ staff of the nation's largest ALT dispatcher skedaddled out
of work three hours early to avoid talking to five of their employees. I
realized that Interac's savvy anti-union strategy had a name: Operation
Run-For-The-Hills.

June 11

Each Saturday morning Interac offers free Japanese lessons to ALTs at HQ. So
we were right back out there Saturday morning with our posters and fliers -
this time 17 members. We figured surely Interac wouldn't cancel an entire
class just to avoid the union's demonstration. Again we had underestimated
Interac's cowardice.
We set the bullhorn facing the firm on a hillock across the road. We spoke
our grievances to the morning passers-by. We played an inspiring union song
on a CD player that kept flaking out.

Three cops approached and began speaking to Yoko-the only Japanese member of
our party. I stepped in, anticipating the usual official harassment. To my
surprise, they were polite--even gracious. They asked us two questions: 1 Is
this a labor-management dispute? 2 How long will your demo last? I said yes
to #1 and to #2 I lied and said 20 minutes. They were quite satisfied by
that and casually strolled off back up the road.

GS Samantha made a stirring, personal speech, closing with an appeal to
Interac to listen to us: "Kiite kudasai."
Then we sent branch members and guards up to the second floor
office-cheering them on. Back down the delegation reported that Interac
staff were gone. We felt flattered that Interac would do us the great honor
of showing their fear of us. Twice. We continued to pass out fliers accusing
the Chairman, Seiichi Matsumoto, of wimpiness and breaking the law.
We finished off our 45-minute demo with a loud shprehicall and music.

This weekend was just the first step for our newest branch, but it was a big
one.

Louis Carlet
Deputy General Secretary
NUGW Tokyo Nambu