Editing Occupation of Japan (section)

=== Trade Union Act ===
On December 22, 1945, at SCAP's direction, the [[National Diet|Diet]] passed Japan's first ever trade union law protecting the rights of workers to form or join a union, to organize, and take industrial action. There had been pre-war attempts to do so, but none that were successfully passed until the Allied occupation.<ref>Kimura, Shinichi, [http://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/metadb/up/LIBOULRK01/oulr006-001.pdf Unfair Labor Practices under the Trade Union Law of Japan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718171935/http://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/metadb/up/LIBOULRK01/oulr006-001.pdf |date=2011-07-18 }}</ref> A new [[Trade Union Act of 1949|Trade Union Law]] was passed on June 1, 1949, which remains in place to the present day. According to Article 1 of the Act, the purpose of the act is to "elevate the status of workers by promoting their being on equal standing with the employer".<ref>Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training [http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/documents/llj_law2.pdf Trade Union Law] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612020204/http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/documents/llj_law2.pdf |date=2011-06-12 }}</ref>