The
influence of private equity investment funds is having profoundly negative
effects upon workers and trade unions. In Japan, the IUF-affiliated Service
Tourism Rengo was confronted with an investment firm which refused to
accept responsibility to collectively bargain at an enterprise it controlled;
the following interview with Vice President Kunio Akiyama outlines the
situation and describes the union's initial response.
[Japanese language, English subtitles]
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