In 2004, Osaka Fu started hiring a new class of temporary teachers: the T-NET, temporary native English teachers. There are now more than 70 T-NETs. The quality of teachers varies, but the length of the contract does not; no teacher can stay on the job for more than 3 years. This is the law. This all but guarantees that inexperienced relatively low-wage workers are teaching English in Osaka Fu public schools, obviously not good for the future leaders of Japan.
OFSET's position is for the Dispatch Worker Program to end if it does not promote quality English education.
For the T-NET program to work at all, OFSET's position is that the T-NET program should be a training ground for local teachers to gain experience before being hired into a better paid and better respected NET job. For this to happen, the BOE would need to expand the number of NET positions back to the 2004 levels when there were between 50 and 60 NETs. (As of April 2008 there are 34 NETs.)
OFSET's further position is to promote legal contracts for T-NETs. The General Union, a union representing conversation school and university teachers as well as dispatch workers, has researched this topic. They have found that most local dispatch contracts are actually illegal. Please follow the previous link or, if unavailable, download the word document and PDF file below.