Japan Federation of Commercial Workers' Unions

{{short description|Trade union in Japan}}

The Japan Federation of Commercial Workers' Unions (JUC, Shogyororen) was a trade union representing service sector workers in Japan.

The union was founded in 1970 and affiliated to both the Japanese Confederation of Labour and to the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees.FIET (1973), Report of the 10th World Congress It transferred to the Japanese Trade Union Confederation at the end of the 1980s, and by 1996 had 129,043 members.{{cite web |title=List of RENGO affiliated union members |url=http://www.crosscurrents.hawaii.edu/assets/jwork/extra/doc/JWORK089_377.pdf |website=Cross Currents |access-date=18 November 2021}} In 2001, it merged with the Chain Store Labor Unions Council and the Seven Department Store Unions' Council, to form the Japan Federation of Service and Distributive Workers' Unions.{{cite web |last1=Carley |first1=Mark |title=Industrial relations in the EU, Japan and USA, 2003-4 |url=https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/article/2005/industrial-relations-in-the-eu-japan-and-usa-2003-4 |website=Eurofound |access-date=14 November 2021}}{{cite book |title=The Europa World Year Book |date=2003 |publisher=Europa Publications}}