Staff writer
KOBE -- About 1,800 workers hired by passenger ferry companies will lose their jobs after the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, linking Honshu and Shikoku, opens next spring.
The Kobe Seamen's Local Labor Relations Commission is now mediating between the managements of ferry companies and a seamen's union, which is planning an indefinite strike to protest the anticipated job losses.
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