All-Japan Trade Union Congress

The All-Japan Trade Union Congress (Japanese: 全日本労働組合会議, Zenro) was a national trade union federation in Japan.

The federation was established in 1954 by a number of unions on the right-wing of the trade union movement, who had become unhappy with the increasingly left-wing stance of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan, and others from the Japanese Federation of Labour. In 1964, it merged with the National Council of Government and Public Workers' Unions and the Japanese Federation of Labour, to form the Japanese Confederation of Labour.[1]

Affiliates

The following unions were affiliated in 1956.[2]

NameAbbreviationMembership (1956)
All-Japan Seamen's UnionKaiin83,693
Chubu Electric Power Workers' UnionChubu Denro16,000
Chugoku Electric Power Workers' UnionChugoku Denro9,089
Federation of Japan Automobile Workers' UnionsJidosha Roren12,000
Japanese Federation of LabourSodomei420,000
Japan Garrison Forces Workers' UnionNitchuro25,000
Kansai Electric Power Workers' UnionKansai Denro22,300
National Cinema and Theatre Workers' UnionZen Eien2,700
National Federation of Textile Industry Workers' UnionsZensendomei320,000
Shikoku Electric Power Workers' UnionShikoku Denro5,816
Tohoku Electric Power Workers' UnionTohoku Denro14,089

Leadership

President: Minoru Takita
General Secretary: Haruo Wada

References

  1. Chaffee, Frederick H. (1969). Area Handbook for Japan. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  2. Mitchell, James P. (1956). Directory of International Trade Union Organizations. Washington DC: United States Department of Labor.
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