The National Organization of All Chemical Workers (, Shin Kagaku) was a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

representing workers in the chemical industry in Japan. The union was founded in 1950, and soon after was a founding affiliate of the

National Federation Of Industrial Organisations The National Federation Of Industrial Organisations (FIO, , Shinsanbetsu) was a national trade union federation in Japan. The federation was a split from Sanbetsu, which took place in 1952. Always a small organisation, by 1967 it had only three ...

. By 1958 it had 7,049 members, growing to 12,265 members in 1970. From the late 1987, it was affiliated to the

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, but by 1996, its membership had declined to 8,313. In 2002, it merged with the Japanese Federation of Chemistry Workers' Unions, the Japan Confederation of Petroleum Industry Workers' Unions, and the National Federation of Cement Workers' Unions of Japan, to form the Japan Federation of Energy and Chemistry Workers' Unions.{{cite book , last1=Kamakura , first1=Yasuhiko , title=Best Practices in Work-flexibility Schemes and Their Impact on the Quality of Working Life in the Chemical Industries , date=2003 , publisher=International Labour Organization , isbn=9221141403

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