3,000 foreign workers at Sharp's central Japan plant cut: labor union

Nearly 3,000 foreign workers dispatched to a Sharp Corp. plant in central Japan apparently had their contracts terminated, a labor union said Monday.The massive cut of the contract workers on the back of a display panel production cutback comes at a time the Japanese government is seeking passage of a bill to revise the immigration law and accept more foreign blue-collar workers into Japan from next April amid opposition parties' fierce protests."Even Japanese descendants are forced to work in a disadvantaged environment. It's evident that foreign workers who will be accepted after the lega…READ FULL ARTICLE