A Cool 50: GU end-of-summer University Campaign - Hands Off Our Koma! Don't touch!
So don’t delay! Only 40 percent of eligible workers in Japan even know about this right and only 30 percent have applied.
GENERAL UNION
Part-time GU members at 50 universities and colleges are demanding that their employers do not cut any koma (lessons) from their schedules in 2023. We have been running this campaign since 2010 and we find it a proactive way to deal with potential koma cuts. Before this time, the union dealt with koma cuts as they happened and learned a very valuable lesson; once koma cuts have been made, it is often difficult to get them back ever.
Part-timers spend years building a schedule that will support them and their families. Piecing together days and periods, travelling to different locations every day and even in the same day that one change in days, one cut in koma, can send their livelihoods tumbling.