National Forestry Workers' Union of Japan explained

The National Forestry Workers' Union of Japan (ja|日本林業労働組合, Nichirinro) was a trade union representing forestry and timber workers in Japan.

The union was founded in 1965 and affiliated to the Japanese Confederation of Labour.^[1] By 1970, it had 10,062 members.^[2] It transferred to the Japanese Trade Union Confederation in the late 1980s, but by 1996, its membership was down to 2,020.^[3] In 2006, it merged into the Japanese Federation of Forest and Wood Workers' Union.

References

1. Web site: Fujii . Hiroaki . Industrial Unionization in Japan: The Conversion Plan of National Forest Workers　of Japan and the Process of its Decline . Kanazawa Seiryo University . 15 December 2021.
2. Book: Labor Law and Practice in Japan . 1970 . United States Department of Labor . Washington DC.
3. Web site: List of RENGO affiliated union members . Cross Currents . 18 November 2021.