You can best help yourself and your co-workers by joining today and taking an active role in reshaping the industry. Because our union is industry based rather than company based we have the ability to raise our demands industry wide. When we deal with unfair employers, we mobilize teachers from many different companies. The demands in this leaflet will be tailored to the situation at each company and presented by each branch of the union. Together we can make the language companies and schools meet their responsibilities to the public and to us, their workers.
Victory is possible, but only through a large and active union membership.
OK, I'm convinced but tell me a little about the General Union and how I can join. The General Union is a Japanese labor union with Japanese and foreign members. As a general union any worker, anywhere can join. The General Union was established about 6 years ago and has been growing steadily. We are affiliated to the National Union of General Workers and the National Council of Trade Unions, one of the three main union federations in Japan.