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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 ...
Kenkoro was established in 1999, with the merger of the Construction and Rural and General Workers' Union, the All Japan Transport and General Workers' Union, and the All Japan National Railway Locomotive Engineers' Union. [2] [3]
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.
The NUGW acts as an umbrella organization encompassing roughly 40 autonomous general unions and trade unions, [4] including the National Union of General Workers Tokyo Nambu (often referred to as simply Nambu), a union which represents workers in southern Tokyo and Eastern Japan; the National Union of General Workers, Tokyo (also known as Tokyo ...
With the founding of the Osaka Zenrokyo (a local area affiliated to Zenrokyo, National Trade Union Council) on 2 February 1991, it was decided that a general union type union was necessary to help both individual workers and groups of otherwise unorganized workers deal with their employment problems.
Japan Federation of Textile and Clothing Workers' Unions Japan High School Teachers' Union Japan Metal Manufacturing, Information and Telecommunication Workers' Union
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