英語検定ライティング準１級（第529回）

ともとり労組「若者が労働組合を組織する話」

ある有名な脚本家が書いた小説で「未明の砦」というミステリー作品がある。大企業によって奴隷扱いされる派遣社員が過労死した年配の作業員の死をきっかけに立ち上がる内容だ。大きなものに巻かれ消耗品のように使われる現代人の話である。
There is the famous mystery novel “The Dawn Fortress” written by a certain popular screenwriter in the nearby library, which attracted us several days ago, she knows.
The contents of it should be that four young temporary workers, who had been treated as if they were slaves of the profitable enterprises, became united to succeed in organizing their own unions for the sake of their senior employee, who was killed with their poor surroundings.
His death had brought them into critical and threatening situations since they determined to establish their own labor union, but they couldn’t allow their environments in the workplaces to continue as they were, she assumes.
Almost all ordinary citizens in our society don’t have any questions why our life goes wrong in an economic way.
After all, we have been someone consumable utilized by only a few profitable corporations, who fail to escape from these challenging and malicious affairs, she knows.

私たちは就職すると御用組合に組み込まれる。半世紀前まではストライキもあったらしい。だが左翼運動は若者にはダサかったりする。だがある意味において組合活動は業務ではない。搾取社会で極めて重要な存在だとは思う。だが忙しすぎるのだ。
When we are engaged into the workforce in our society, we would become a member of the labor union, although such organizations lack the aggressiveness to fight with someone without any considerations and sensibleness.
About five decades ago, countless and numerous labor organizations conducted their own absolute strikes to resist their profitable employers’ vices, everyone knows.
But numerous young workers at present tend to find the conventional and traditional styles of leftism something unfashionable, which might be one of the causes that the current labor unions have lacked their meanings.
Simultaneously, several kinds of activities contained in their statements might fail to be far from their original tasks, which makes negative contributions to the unions.
Almost all of the current workers have been exploited by the major corporations and enterprises, so that the labor unions should play an indispensable role in our society.
However, countless ordinary citizens including students, wives and officials, have suffered from what they have been required to do by their supervisors, everyone says.