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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.
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.
J. JAM (trade union) Japan Broadcasting Labour Union; Japan Coal Miners' Union; Japan Confederation of Petroleum Industry Workers' Unions; Japan Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Workers' Unions
Membership grew to 138,503 by 1989. That year, Sohyo merged into the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (RENGO). Kokko Roren decided instead to become a founding affiliate of the National Confederation of Trade Unions, although a section which wished to join RENGO split away and formed the Japan Central Federation of National Public Service Employees' Unions. [1]
The All Japan Construction, ... is a Japanese trade union ... (the National Confederation of Trade Unions), [1] the second largest of Japan's three main trade union ...
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 National Confederation of Trade Unions (全国労働組合総連合, Zenkoku Rōdōkumiai sōrengō), commonly known in Japanese as Zenroren (全労連), is a national trade union center. Founding and history
The Trade Union Law (労働組合法, roudou-kumiaihō) is a Japanese law. It was enacted on 1 June 1949 to provide the right for workers to organize in Japan . It has been translated as the "Trade Union Law" and "Labor Union Law".