Founded February 2, 1987 Website www.jru7.net | Members 62,300 Country Japan | |
Native name Zen-nihon tetsudō-rōdō-kumiai | ||
The Japan Confederation of Railway Workers' Unions (JRU) (全日本鉄道労働組合総連合会, Zen-nihon tetsudō-rōdō-kumiai) is a Japanese trade union, which is usually referred to as JR-Soren (JR総連) in Japanese.
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In 2010, a complaint was lodged in the Diet that JR-Soren was being financially controlled by the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction). JR-Soren denied the charges. The charge was repeated by Kansei Nakano and confirmed by several weekly magazines.
Composition
JR-Soren consists of 11 unions and has 62,300 members.
Overseas activities
JR-Soren has assisted with construction of elementary schools in China, and in 2002, established an office in Kabul to support the people of Afghanistan.
References
Japan Confederation of Railway Workers' Unions Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA