Filipino trainee in Japan pressured to leave labor union by supervising body

An organization that supervises foreign trainees coming to Japan to learn technical skills attempted to pressure a 25-year-old man from the Philippines to leave his labor union, the union said Sunday.The man arrived in Japan in April 2015 and began working at a construction firm in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, with three others. They were subjected to regular physical and verbal abuse from their superiors, leading them to join the Kanagawa City Union in December 2016.The labor union sent a request to AHM Cooperation, the body overseeing the group's time in Japan under the country's T…READ FULL ARTICLE