Rengo

The Rengo is a trade union Japan board, which asserts 6 million and half of members and chaired by Tsuyoshi Takagi. It is affiliated with the international Trade-union confederation.

The Japanese trade-union organizations have a hierarchical structure of three-line: trade unions of company, industrial federations, and the national center ( Rengo ) at the top. There is also a wide area network, with local organizations, called “local RENGOs,” bench in all the prefectures of Japan.

Principle

Rengo is a national center, composed of industrial federations. Its goal is “ to defend the use and the lives of all the working people ”, naturally including the syndicated workers. He works with the government organizations and the employers on questions such as the standards of work, the systems tax and the social security, which cannot be negotiated at the local level or in company.

By gathering the power of various trade unions, the national center can raise the level of the work conditions and the alive standards for all the workmen. Successes in these sectors by the national center create, alternatively, a confidence towards the trade unions on the level of the work place, contributing to reinforce these same trade unions of company and their industrial federations. In the past, Japan had several divided national centres, but the efforts to increase the power of the trade unions led to the formation into 1989 of a unified national center, a Japanese confederation of trade union, or of Rengo.

At the beginning of March of each year, Rengo begins the negotiations of the Shuntō.

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