20 Fired for Japanese Commuter Rail Strike
Japan National Railways said Tuesday that it has fired 20 workers and disciplined 100 for staging an illegal strike that stranded 710,000 commuters.
Japanese law bans strikes by workers in the public sector, but strikers usually receive only warnings.
The tough measures were taken against union members whose 24-hour strike on Nov. 28 stranded hundreds of thousands of people between Chiba, the prefecture just east of Tokyo, and the capital. Leftist radicals sympathetic to the strikers sabotaged rail facilities in Tokyo early on Nov. 29, causing near chaos for about 1 million people during the morning rush-hour.
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