title: General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions of Japan
text: # General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions of Japan
  
  The General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions of Japan (PRU, Japanese: 日本私鉄労働組合総連合会, Shitetsu Soren) is a trade union representing transport workers in Japan.
  
  The union was founded on 10 January 1947 as a split from the Japan Transportation Labor Union Alliance. It was a founding affiliate of the original Japanese Trade Union Confederation. In 1949, it affiliated to the National Confederation of Trade Unions, but the following year, it left to become a founding affiliate of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan. It led a strike in 1952, and participated in the general transport strike of 1967, but generally focused on negotiation. By 1967, it had 255,882 members.
  
  In 1989, the union was a founding affiliate of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation. By 2020, it had 113,253 members.
  
  