4 Fukushima workers to sue TEPCO for danger pay

Good ! . ............... It shouldn't even be s subject for litigation . . .TEPCO automatically should have increased pay scales according to the level of danger. . .What an idiotically selfish, inhumane company !!!!!

Allegations

After three years you would have figured out whether the mob was involved or not, don't you think?

Pointless. They won't win.

Good for them. But don't just sue TEPCO. We've heard it in the news many times before that it's not TEPCO not paying the danger money. It's the subcontractors putting that money into their pockets or blaming it to the workers accommodation and food.

Japanese system about subcontracting is rotten. Reforms only would save the fate of workers. Japanese don t care. Abe san too. Period.

Of the 6,000 people working at the plant every day over the last two months, only a handful are directly employed by TEPCO. Allegations continue to swirl that organized crime has had a hand in staffing subcontractors at the bottom of the food chain.

The sometimes murky arrangements mean that despite pledges by TEPCO of extra cash for employees, it is often difficult to tell if the money filters through to the people at the sharp end, or is skimmed off at one of the many intermediary levels.

This is as much an indictment of Abe and the government as it is of TEPCO. Three years after the disaster, and with tax-payers' money basically footing the bill for the clean-up, and all the government does is turn its back on these workers, knowing full well that the yakuza-controlled system is screwing these folks over. Shameful.

The entire thing is a scam, sub contractors 5-6 layers deep!

The government say it is safe, they wouldn't lie now would they? ;)

Certain sections of the Japanese language press (Asahi in particular) have been reporting on this issue for at least the last two years. The dash for cash which is the response to this crisis has attracted a lot of dodgy companies. There have been widespread stories of certain labor contractors haunting the streets of Osaka and basically press-ganging day labors, who are then transported up north and paid minimum wage or below. The complicated structural relationships between TEPCO and these labor brokers has resulted in both serious abuses of labor rights and massive fraud. At the current time, however, the government refuses to act.

This clean up is the most important engineering project in Japan's history and it is being controlled by clowns and thugs. The middle-men are scamming both the contractee and contractor. It's belying me why this sham has been able to go on for so long and, it will continue to go on. If the Japanese government had any balls they would have taken over this farce and made sure the middle-men were not ripping people off at each end of the scale. I'm glad to see these few speaking up, but I doubt if their case will make any difference. As the article states, they will be labeled as troublemakers and fired. It's the old Japanese proverb that is still very true in today's society. "The nail that stands up must be hammered down!"

Why weren't they indicted for danger itself? They are still exposing people to extreme danger.

It's about time! I can't believe they haven't been hit by a slew of lawsuits! Time after time they've been proven to have hidden information or downplayed it severely...and, as for the low wages they're paying....what a bunch of criminals!

Reuters did a pretty comprehensive report on this a few months ago. TEPCO also increased the hazard pay by 10,000¥/ day, leading all the labourers to believe that they would receive nearly double their pay, but they only ended up with a few 100¥ extra after all the layers of sub-contractors took their cut. TEPCO then put out the usual apology, 'regrettable' 'misunderstanding' 'look into it' etc.....

TEPCO, KEPCO and the other nuclear power plant operators like to keep these workers at arm's length; they are not responsible for any long term effects of radiation exposure, that's the sub-contractors' responsibility.

The 1995 UK Video entitled the Nuclear Ginza, about KEPCO's 17 reactors in Wakasa Bay, showed the same recruiting system then, and KEPCO either paying workers off or denying payments, made easier when the workers had no clear documented records of radiation exposure, due to their own ignorance or employers' altering the data.

If they're having this much trouble with the cleanup, hard not to wonder if actually building the plants was any better, with news media not caring as much as they do about this story.

As a contractor back in the US. If I hired "subs" and they got hurt on the job, I'm still liable for them, no matter how many different individuals or subcontractors. This is why why you try to hire the best people, NOT the cheapest. How and why is TEPCO not liable or responsible for the companies they hire?

The Time for "Sub-Contractors" in Nuclear Facilities and other dangerous industrial Environments is over, a Alternative is a dedicated Company who is educated enough to protect the Employees.

The "Nuclear Gypsies" are a Relict of the early Days but do not belong in to our Period.

Topic: i doubt that they will be successful because Tepco is protected by the signed Contracts, but i am very surprised about the International Response, alone yesterday i counted up to 4.500 Articles about this Case.

The Problem is a different one, Daiichi it self!