6 Vietnamese sue Toyota subcontractor over working conditions

6 Vietnamese sue Toyota subcontractor over working conditions

NAGOYA, Japan - A Vietnamese woman sobs at a news conference in Nagoya on March 27 after she and five other Vietnamese trainees filed a lawsuit claiming that a Toyota Motor Corp. subcontractor and others violated their human rights were violated in many ways while working as so-called trainees from 2003 and part of their wages remain unpaid. The plaintiffs' lawyers said the six, who came to Japan under a Japanese government-sponsored training program, hope to let the Japanese public know the reality of the labor conditions they experienced by filing the suit with the Nagoya District Court.

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