Serene state of mind

　　

On the latest National holiday, two winning teams of each Baseball league in our state had victory parades in two cities.
On holding parades, city office workers in each City were treated differently.
In the City that was reconstructed from earthquake disaster twenty-eight years ago, city office workers who were on duty for Parades are regarded to have worked on holiday, and they can take a holiday to make up for having worked on this day.
On the other hand, in the Host city of upcoming Exposition, City office workers were mobilized as volunteer.
Legally, the time is treated as working hours when worker is subject to instruction and supervision of employer.
Then I judge that even though the employer side claims duties related with Parade as volunteer, if employer's order has compelling force on those City office workers, the time has to be working hours.
This is based on the law to protect private sector workers, but the rule should be applied on public workers as well.
In the meantime, as is pointed by online postings, the City's way to plot labor exploitation is just like the region government that is ruled by the Political party bulldozing unwanted Exposition.



As is already spread, due to increasing costs of building materials and payroll, budget for upcoming Exposition keeps on rising,
Almost twice as much as budget that announced at first.
The Gospel According To Luke 14-28 to 30 says:
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
Saying "This man began to build and was not able to finish".
It's obvious that they've used up their original budget to lay a foundation, and they are still bulldozing construction.
It's extremely natural that people are more and more angry and oppose against wasting tax on what are destroyed in just six months.
In the first place, interests have been low among general public from the beginning.
Now it looks like the more Committee frantically kick Exposition into gear, the more general public wish and demand cancellation.
Just before I took up today's translation, five countries declared withdrawal from Exposition.
This news drew attention whether more and more states resign, but soon, other countries and organizations joined.
In a nutshell, as well as the latest Olympic in our state, upcoming Exposition is nothing but a waste of tax that Panjandrums and their hangers-on invited for the sake of their own concession.
　Our nation has learned nothing from disastrous Olympic game.
　　I'd like to take this occasion to ask the world to think twice whether we can allow such Exposition bulldozed.

There is only one good thing brought by upcoming Exposition.
Architecture industry used to give a blank check to unlimited overtime work.
However, from the next April, the working hour regulation is applied on construction industry as well as other industries.
Compared to the new working hour regulations for medical and transportation industries, I don't think this fact had been well-known among general public.
At the end of this July, Exposition committee requested government to exempt construction site of Exposition from working hour regulation.
Central authority tries to deny, but imbecile assemblies of current Ruling parties advocate that they should treat Exposition same as disaster response and unrestraint working hour.
Surely, for general public, this Exposition itself is already a disaster that leaves nothing but burdens on nation.
At that time, I felt like expecting that thanks to Exposition, construction industry's labor hour issue draws people's attention.

(Translation: Unable-to-think-up-handle)

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