Shortage of workers at Fukushima – TEPCO fudges the numbers
NHK – TEPCO over-reports number of Fukushima workers http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Voqq-DYQ48k
NHK: Concerns rising at Fukushima plant — 16,000 workers have quit, ‘severe working conditions’ blamed (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/nhk-concerns-rising-at-fukushima-plant-16000-workers-have-quit-severe-working-conditions-blamed-video
November 5th, 2012
Title: TEPCO over-reports number of Fukushima workers
Source: NHK
Date: Nov. 5, 2012
“Concerns are rising over whether Tepco has secured enough workers to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant”
[...] NHK found through an interview with TEPCO officials that only 8,000 workers are registered for the job, as of last month.
Earlier, the utility said there would be no manpower shortage as it had secured about 24,000 workers.
But this figure represents the total number of people who have worked at the crippled plant since the accident on March 11 last year.
16,000 workers have already quit the job. Many of them left due to severe working conditions. [...]
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No doubt many quit due to harsh conditions, but a friend also reported this first hand account:
“NHK must’ve confused verbs. From what the manager said to me, nearly all workers are fired after a short time and do not voluntarily quit, as they are desperate for money. They are put on buses that take them outside the prefecture and dumped in front of train stations. Since he runs a large personnel department, I assume he knows the score.
NHK is softening the blow against Tepco, pulling punches as usual.
Why fire workers? Liability, of course. Short-term workers do not get health benefits. Plus to hold down reported casualty numbers. That’s why people from far places are better, so that it is also difficult to prove their cancer began at Fukushima.
I did not see the NHK program in Japanese, but they should have used the word “released” or let go, if they wanted to be sensitive and polite about being fired and thrown to the dogs.”
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