Coverage of the Nova Teacher Protest

A fresh video of the Union-organized protest march by Nova Teachers (from ATV):

The Japan Times also has an article up about the issue:

The General Union, which represents foreign-language teachers and other staff at Nova Corp., said Monday it will lodge a complaint with the labor authorities against the company for delaying wage payments.

The union said it will initiate formal proceedings with the Osaka Central Labor Standards Inspection Office on Tuesday morning either in the name of the union or Nova employees.

Update: Here’s a TV report on the Osaka protest march (for TBS in the Kinki Region):

Update 2: FTV also reported on the demonstration:

And Mainichi has an article up about it:

The Nova teachers’ branch of the National Union of General Workers Nambu also joined with other unions from western Japan to ask Labor Standards Supervision Offices in Tokyo and Osaka to pursue a criminal case against NOVA and its president, Nozomu Sahashi.

The unions accuse Sahashi and NOVA of breaking the Labor Standards Law.

NOVA union officials pointed out that the chain has failed to pay some of its English conversation teachers since July and that payment of September’s monthly wages for all its teachers were late. Teachers were supposed to be paid on Monday, but the company did not forward entitled wages, instead sending a letter to instructors saying that it would pay them by Oct. 19.

And there’s another article at Mainichi with the clever title “Oh NOVA! More English students sue chain.”