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Pages in category "Trade unions in Japan" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Labour unions emerged in Japan in the second half of the Meiji period, after 1890, as the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization. [4] Until 1945, however, the labour movement remained weak, impeded by a lack of legal rights, [5] anti-union legislation, [4] management-organized factory councils, and political divisions between “cooperative” and radical unionists.
Pages in category "Public sector trade unions in Japan" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In the late 1980s there were many changes in the trade union movement in Japan. The two major bodies of trade unions, the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (Sōhyō) and the Japanese Confederation of Labor (Dōmei), formed the National Confederation of Trade Unions in 1989, advocating the importance of the Japanese Labor Union movement being unified.
The union was founded on 2 February 1987, with the merger of the National Railway Locomotive Engineers' Union (Doro) and the Japan Railway Workers' Union (Tetsuro). The merger was in response to the privatisation of Japanese National Railways, of which both unions were broadly supportive. It affiliated to the Japanese Trade Union Confederation. [1]
The Japanese Federation of Labour (Japanese: 日本労働組合総同盟 Nihon Rōdō Kumiai Sōdōmei) was a national trade union federation in Japan. The federation was established in 1946, principally through the efforts of trade unionists, who had been involved in the pre-war Japanese Labour Federation.
The framework among government, labour and employers opened the door for a new style of Japanese labour unions, whose numbers have dwindled to below 20. In Japan, it's rare to see labour go on ...
The union was established on 9 September 2003, with the merger of the Japanese Federation of Iron and Steel Workers' Unions, the Japan Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Workers' Unions, and the Japanese Metal Mine Workers' Union. Like all of its predecessors, it became affiliated with the Japanese Trade Union Confederation. [1]