The General Union is a legally registered labour/trade union, part of the Japanese labour union movement, and we are open to workers of any category or nationality. Since it was founded in 1991, our union has established a solid reputation for protecting its members' rights and improving their working conditions. We are workers like you who have joined together to protect our livelihoods and rights as workers. As a union, we are able to provide our members advice on workplace issues, and we actively help our members to organize and negotiate in their workplaces. read more about us
ゼネラルユニオンは，日本語での労働相談も行っています．日本語ページはこちら．
講師を「雇用でなく委託」としてきた法違反問題で、大阪府労働委員会の「委託でなく労働者」の判断確定と、有価証券報告書の虚偽不実記載で証券監視委にも通報された事を、ｾﾞﾈﾗﾙﾕﾆｵﾝはﾎｰﾑﾍﾟｰｼﾞで情報公開しました。ｾﾞﾈﾗﾙﾕﾆｵﾝ・ﾎｰﾑﾍﾟｰｼﾞは、偏らず営利でもない真実の情報を公開してきましたが、今回、ｾﾞﾈﾗﾙﾕﾆｵﾝ勝訴判決で、ﾎｰﾑﾍﾟｰｼﾞ自体に高い社会的評価を頂きました。 ...read more
The union is launching a new series of articles and is calling for submissions from members. We are looking for opinion pieces that relate to work place issues. We are hoping to gen ...read more
Spring is the traditional time for Japanese unions to negotiate improvements in working conditions. Called “shunto” in Japanese, it translates as Spring Labor Offensive. Right across Japan unions, big ...read more
The union's strategy of applying for mediation with the Osaka Labour Relations Commission has achieved its purpose- breaking the negotiation deadlock with ECC. Even though ECC refused mediation they i ...read more
Women's universities have been hit hardest by the fall in the school age population and Kobe Shoin is no exception to this trend. Problems have been made worse by changes in the syllabus by some facul ...read more
Part-time teachers at Osaka Univeristy (Handai) got a shock in October when the university administration unveiled plans at an information meeting to cut the number of part-time teachers in their facu ...read more
New branches of the General Union have been formed at Ashiya Gakuen High-School where teachers are fighting to prevent a worsening of their working conditions and Kansai Gaidai where full-time contrac ...read more
As we have reported previously Nara Labour Standard's Office ordered Tezukayama University to pay a General Union 60% of their wages for a class the university had cancelled due to the low student enr ...read more
Over the last few years the Education Ministry (MEXT) has exerted pressure on universities to guarantee a minimum 15 classes in each semester, excluding examinations. This has lead to a number of prob ...read more
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