NTT union sits in to protest restructuring plan

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a workers union of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. take part in a sit-in and rally in front of NTT's holding company in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Aug. 31 to protest the company's restructuring plan. The union is opposing the plan which would affect 110,000 of NTT's current workforce of 210,000.

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