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Half of workers feel pinch: Rengo

About half of the employees in their 20s to 50s who were hired by private companies have felt the economy sputter in the past year, a trade union think tank survey showed Saturday. Read the full story . . . ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Sun, May 18 2008

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