The demands were for the working rules to be made available to all staff, an explanation of how the company ensures all staff are enrolled in unemployment insurance, and that when teachers are sent on business trips, that the company should directly pay for the hotel rather than requiring the teacher to do so and then reimbursing them.

The union subsequently announced that the company had agreed to prepay for hotels when it was necessary for teachers to stay in them for one or two nights.

A new confidentiality agreement was proposed which the union saw as an attempt to "intimidate JTs [Japanese Teachers] and put them in their place".

The union advised the company that they planned to push ahead with strike action, and the company counteracted by removing the branch chair from the teaching schedule, and began calling other teachers wanting to know details of strikes, which intimidated teachers and was another breach of trade union law.

The dispute over the dismissal of the branch chair was later resolved by mediation at the Osaka Labor Relations Commission in 2016.