Union support
"The general union and Nambu decided on a policy that that we won't take new members if Nova goes bankrupt. What we will have is a question-and-answer site — we'll give all the information necessary to employees to get the government subsidy for unpaid wages, and we'll hold a one-time "setsumeikai" (meeting) for any employee who wants to come. If it goes bankrupt, we will shut the doors on the Nova union, but of course they're welcome to join Nambu separately.
"As for Nova members, we'll be actively pursuing all their wages, not just the 80 percent guaranteed by the government. If Nova has any assets left, in general employees get first dibs, so we'll be fighting for that." (Louis Carlet, deputy general secretary of the National Union of General Workers Tokyo Nambu)
"If there's unpaid wages, we would have to go to the Labor Standards Office or a court and force (Nova) into paying whatever they have and then eventually when they can't — when the court forces them to pay and they don't have any money to pay — then it could be a long, drawn-out process. In the meantime, a lot of foreigners may not be able to stay in Japan to fight, so at least our union members, even if they have to leave the country, we'll continue to fight for them." (Louis Carlet)