Mainichi: INAX affiliate's refusal to negotiate with union ruled unfair labor practice
An INAX Corp. affiliate's refusal to enter negotiations with the labor union of customer engineers (CEs) constitutes an unfair labor practice, a local labor panel ruled Monday...In its petition, the union pointed out the INAX Maintenance has about 550 CEs at its offices across the country, that only 184 of them, or one-third, were full-time employee as of September 2003 and that they work under the command of the company management...They then claimed that [the CEs] are actually full-time workers...The commission sided with the union...It determined that CEs can be recognized as workers as they are playing a key role in the company's main business...more...