Japan Federation of Commercial Workers' Unions explained

The Japan Federation of Commercial Workers' Unions (JUC, Shogyororen) was a trade union representing service sector workers in Japan.

The union was founded in 1970 and affiliated to both the Japanese Confederation of Labour and to the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees.^[1] It transferred to the Japanese Trade Union Confederation at the end of the 1980s, and by 1996 had 129,043 members.^[2] In 2001, it merged with the Chain Store Labor Unions Council and the Seven Department Store Unions' Council, to form the Japan Federation of Service and Distributive Workers' Unions.^{[3] [4]}

References

1. FIET (1973), Report of the 10th World Congress
2. Web site: List of RENGO affiliated union members . Cross Currents . 18 November 2021.
3. Web site: Carley . Mark . Industrial relations in the EU, Japan and USA, 2003-4 . Eurofound . 14 November 2021.
4. Book: The Europa World Year Book . 2003 . Europa Publications.