The All-Japan Seamen's Union (JSU; ja, 全日本海員組合, Kaiin) is a
trade union representing seafarers and harbour workers in the marine industry, in Japan.
The union was founded on 5 October 1945, as the successor to the pre-war Japan Seamen's Union.
It was a founding affiliate of the
National Trade Union Council
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, but as that federation moved to the left, it quit and formed the
All-Japan Trade Union Congress.
From 1960, it supported the
Democratic Socialist Party, but dropped this in 1973.
In 1964, the union was a founding affiliate of the
Japanese Confederation of Labour
The Japanese Confederation of Labour (Domei; ja, 全日本労働総同盟) was a national trade union federation in Japan.
The federation was founded in 1964, with the merger of the All-Japan Trade Union Congress, the National Council of Governme ...
, and by 1967 it had 142,935 members.
It is now affiliated to the
Japanese Trade Union Confederation, and as of 2010 had around 76,000 members, the majority of whom are not Japanese citizens.
Presidents
:Hisashi Kageyama
:1959: Kumazo Nakachi
:1966: Yuki Murakami
:1980: Kazukiyo Doi
:1988: Shoshiro Nakanishi
:2000:
:2010: Yoji Fujisawa
:Yasumi Morita
External links
*{{official website, http://www.jsu.or.jp/
References
Seafarers' trade unions
Trade unions established in 1945
Trade unions in Japan