The National Union of Coal Mine Workers (Zentanko) was a trade union representing coal miners in Japan.
The union was founded in 1952, with the merger of a union which had split from the Japan Coal Miners' Union in 1949 with another dissident faction of that union.[1] It was a founding affiliate of the Japanese Confederation of Labour, and by 1967, it had 31,799 members.[2] It transferred to the Japanese Trade Union Confederation at the end of the 1980s, but lost members as the industry declined, and by 1996 was down to 1,750 members.[3]
References
edit- ^ Hein, Laura Elizabeth (1990). Fueling Growth: The Energy Revolution and Economic Policy in Postwar Japan. Harvard: Council of East Asian Studies. ISBN 9780674326804.
- ^ Chaffee, Frederick H. (1969). Area Handbook for Japan. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ "List of RENGO affiliated union members" (PDF). Cross Currents. Retrieved 18 November 2021.