Convention Declaration
RENGO has celebrated the 30th anniversary of its founding. With this convention as a major
milestone, we are making a powerful new start towards carving out a more stable future for all
working people.
Today, the world faces many difficult challenges, including the entrenchment of poverty,
unstable employment and growing disparities, threats to human rights, and the issue of climatechange. In addition, the current climate of disregard for multilateralism in the international
community has the potential to undermine the international order that was created on afoundation of peace and prosperity by those who came before us. We must say we are facing acrisis of democracy.
Japan is also facing both a declining birthrate and a decreasing and aging population, and isin the midst of a period of technological innovation. To allow us to break through this period ofchange, it will be essential to achieve mass acceptance, as a shared value, of the push to createa dynamic society in which every individual can live vibrantly and flourish, irrespective of age,gender, nationality or disability.
To realize this goal, we must establish a foundation that supports our society, our regional
areas, and our ways of working as soon as possible. This will include the establishment of stablesocial security, the strengthening of the foundations for SMEs, the revitalization of regional
areas, and the realization of working styles that balance life and work.
At the same time, it will be essential to establish policies that sincerely consider the opinionof each and every citizen, and that are able to eliminate the diverse anxieties that people arefeeling. We strongly demand real progress towards the establishment of the policies desired byworking people and ordinary citizens, towards the realization of a sound and non-complacentparliamentary democracy that reflects the diversity of opinion among citizens.
Looking towards the society of 2035, we have formulated RENGO Vision 2035, “SecureSociety based on Work – Protecting, Connecting and Creating ,” which positions sustainability
and inclusivity at the foundation of our movement. We intend to conduct extensive and ongoingsocial dialogue with diverse stakeholders in seeking to realize this vision.
In addition, we will further refine the “Power and Policy” that we have cultivated since ourfounding, and advance with all of our strength plus the cooperation of all of our members thenew action policies formed out of the priority areas, areas for advancement, and initiatives tostrengthen our foundations that have been established at this convention, which will see us
rebuild our movement.
What this means is nothing less than leading the global trade union movement as the core of
the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).

Seeking to pursue collective labor-management relations in order to protect and connect all
working people, implement policy, improve working conditions, and realize workplaces and asociety in which true diversity is strongly rooted, our goal is to create a broad-based movementthat works towards the realization of secure society, based on the resolution represented by ourconvention slogan, “We can Change the Future.”

October 11, 2019
The 16th JTUC-RENGO Biennial Convention