The National Trade Union of Metal and Engineering Workers (Zenkokukinzoku) was a trade union representing machining workers in Japan.
The union was founded in 1947 and was initially chaired by Kanson Arahata.[1] It was a founding affiliate of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan. By 1967, it had 208,831 members,[2] which had declined to 145,000 by 1988.[3] In 1989, it merged with the National Machinery and Metal Workers' Union to form the National Metal and Machinery Workers' Union.[4][5] A minority of members instead split away to form the All Japan Metal and Machinery Information Workers' Union.[6]
References
edit- ^ Hoover, William D. (2018). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 9781538111567.
- ^ Chaffee, Frederick H. (1969). Area Handbook for Japan. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ Foreign Labor Trends: Japan. Washington DC: United States Department of Labor. 1988.
- ^ Japan Labour Bulletin. 38 (5). 1999.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Japan". Report of the Secretariat to the IMF Central Committee. 1990.
- ^ Seifert, Wolfgang (13 March 2013). Gewerkschaften in der japanischen Politik von 1970 bis 1990. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. ISBN 9783322899309.