National Trade Union Council (Japan)

The National Trade Union Council (全国労働組合連絡協議会, Zenkoku Rōdōkumiai Renraku Kyōgi-kai), commonly known in Japanese as Zenrōkyō (全労協), is a national confederation of Japanese labor unions.

This organization was born out of the Labor Research Center, which had been created by former Sōhyō chairmen Kaoru Ota and Makoto Ichikawa and former secretary general Akira Iwai.

Zenrokyo itself declares its membership to be some 300,000, while according to the investigation by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare its numbers were reported as 118,000 as of December, 2010.

However, it is also the only one of the major trade union federations to actively organize foreign workers in Japan.

However, Zenrokyo does not force its members to raise funds as an organization or to support the political parties mentioned above, and it regrets that this was done in the Sōhyō period.