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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 ...
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 ...
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.
General Union; Japan Teachers Union; National Union of General Workers; RENGO; Sohyo; Tozen; Zenzōsen; ... General Union of the Workers of São Tomé and Príncipe;
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 ...
Website. www .generalunion .org. The General Union (ゼネラルユニオン, zeneraru yunion) is a labor union founded in 1991 and headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Membership is open to all nationalities and all workers. It has members working in trading companies, factories and restaurants but the majority of members are teachers and staff who ...
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.