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Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union (全国一般東京ゼネラルユニオン), or Tozen Union (東ゼン労組), is a Japanese labour union. It was founded on April 25, 2010, by Louis Carlet, Tony Dolan, and David Ashton. It is a "godo roso" general amalgamated union, the first ever in Japan with foreigners holding all three top executive ...
Louis Carlet is the founder of Tozen, a union representing both Japanese and migrant workers, including foreign language teachers, bank and newspaper workers. Carlet is from the United States and moved to Japan in the early 1990s, originally working as a translator for a Japanese newspaper, called Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and subsequently leaving ...
On December 18, 2014, retail workers of Apple Japan announced a union affiliated with Tozen using the slogan "Work Different". [42] Three of Japan's ten Apple stores are unionized with Tozen. [ 43 ]
Japan is a member of the ILO. Convention ratification. Freedom of Association. 14 June 1965. Right to Organise. 20 October 1953. 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 ...
The Berlitz Japan 2007–2008 strike was a strike held by Berlitz Japan teachers of the Berlitz General Union Tokyo (Begunto), which was part of the National Union of General Workers (NUGW) before moving to Tozen Union in 2019. Beginning in December 2007 and continuing until November 2008, it grew into the longest and largest sustained strike ...
Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru (National Union of Teachers of Wales) UCAC; UNIFI (trade union) (Financial services) Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians UCATT; Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers USDAW; UNISON (Public services) Unite - the Union; University and College Union, amalgam of the AUT and NATFHE.
Japan Agriculture and Forestry Ministry Workers' Unions. Japan Broadcasting Labour Union. Japan Coal Miners' Union. Japan Confederation of Petroleum Industry Workers' Unions. Japan Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Workers' Unions. Japan Construction Trade Union Confederation. Japan Federation of Aviation Industry Unions.
In Japan, Berlitz teachers are represented by several unions. In the Kansai region they are represented by the General Union, [26] and in the Kanto region they are represented by Begunto, the Berlitz Tokyo General Union, [27] part of Tozen, [28] and the Berlitz Union at NUGW [29] which belongs to the National Trade Union Council.