On Feb 15, Freeter Zenpan Rodo Kumiai (Precariat Union) visited German Embassy for solidarity with Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union (FAU). Workers of Cinema Babylon, a theater located in the site of Berlin International Film Festival(The Berlinale),have been under unstable conditions. They are irregular workers with no labor contract. They only received wages of only 5-8.5€ per hour with no paid holidays, no wages for overtime works. On Jan, 2009, one worker was fired unfairly, so most of the workers joined FAU and demanded collective bargaining to their company, Neue Babylon. As Neue Babylon denied this demand, FAU launched the labor dispute to demand that non-regular workers should receive livable wages and basic labor rights guaranteed by the law. On Dec, 2009, their direct action was determined to be illegal by the Berlin Regional Court for reason that they had no experience to achieve collective agreement.
Freeter Zenpan Rodo Kumiai received this news from FAU. They said;
"This is similar to what we do as an organization here in Tokyo, and for us a jail sentence is unthinkable. "
The statement of Freeter Zenpan Rodo Kumiai is as follows.
