National Federation of Industrial Organizations: this Japanese national-level trade union federation had a membership of 56,000 persons in October 1988 at the time of its dissolution. See also:...

Japan 1936-1940 The early liberalism of the Japanese labor movement of the 1920s fell victim to internal and external pressures. Internally, the infighting between socialist, communist, and fifth column quasifascist factions undermined the unity of...

In Japan, three main labour federations represent Japan's labour unions. They are in order of number of members: (日本労働組合総連合会, RENGO?, "National Federation of Private Sector Unions"), 6.6 million members;...

Union leaders of the 1990s may have insured their extinction by not adapting strategies to fit the times. Union leaders had the moral advantage in the early part of the 20th century when workers in brutal conditions were overworked and underpaid. Corporate management changed...

Health care workers are being targetted now by union organizers as the number of blue-collar jobs decrease over the last decades. The growing number of unionized laboratories have posed a threat to many laboratory managers and supervisors because working in a unionized department would...