The history of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo)
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- Rengo head Washio plans to retire
- The Japan Times, 12 June 2001. Etsuya Washio,
president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, said he
will retire when his term expires in October. Washio played
a leading role in swinging Rengo's support behind the
Democratic Party of Japan, the main opposition party.
- Rengo names Sasamori new leader
- The Japan Times, 28 September 2001. The
Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) on Thursday
elected its general secretary Kiyoshi Sasamori as its new
president, replacing the retiring Etsuya Washio. Sasamori
was elected unopposed because no one else filed
- Management-labor cooperation urged
- The Japan Times, 13 September 2002. The heads of
the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) and the
Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) agreed that
management and labor need to cooperate in areas such as
pensions and medical care. Rather than confronting each
other, management and labor should cooperate in a wide rage
of areas including government policies.
- Rengo officials implicated in donation
- The Japan Times, 5 November 2002. Senior
members of the Kyoto branch of the Japanese Trade Union
Confederation (Rengo) received tax deductions by falsely
claiming to have made 18.7 million yen in donations to the
union's political arm and manipulated the books to
inflate expenses so the figures would matchm.
- Rengo shift reflects job crisis
- Yomiuri Shimbun, 27 January 2003. The
decision by the Japan Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) to
consider changing its policy to back Liberal Democratic
Party candidates in the next House of Representatives
election reflects the labor union's worries over the
current severe employment situation.
- Rengo facing crisis over
- The Japan Times, 27 January 2004. Management
has suggested that there may be decreases in basic wages and
that annual spring labor campaigns for higher wages are
dead. After being re-elected chairman Sasamori declared he
would reconstruct Rengo. The ratio of union members to the
total number of workers has dipped to 19.6 percent, the
worst in the postwar era.