The Tokyo District Court on Monday rejected a lawsuit filed by Berlitz Japan Inc. that sought damages from union executives and its teachers for waging strikes and causing substantial damage to the company.
Presiding Judge Hiroshi Watanabe sided with the labor union and its workers, saying acts by the defendants "do not comprise any illegality."
Berlitz, the plaintiff, filed the lawsuit in December 2008. The language school chain claimed executives of the National Union of General Workers Tokyo Nambu, and affiliate Berlitz General Union Tokyo (Begunto) - particularly five activist, non-Japanese Berlitz teachers - conducted illegal strikes for 11 months beginning in December 2007. (Japan Times)
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