List of Chairs of the National Labor Relations Board
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has five Members, each of whom serves for a five-year term. Terms are staggered so that one Member's term expires each year (although delays in nominations and confirmation, as well as the use of recess appointments, can upset this schedule). Members are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate. Traditionally, a majority of the board belongs to the President's political party. The President designates the Chair from one of the existing Members. The Chair serves at the pleasure of the President, and may be demoted without cause or warning at any time.
National Union of General Workers
The National Union of General Workers (NUGW) is the shortened, English title of the National Union of General Workers National Council ( "Zenkoku Ippan Roudou Kumiai Zenkoku Kyogikai"), a national labour union council established in 1991. NUGW is affiliated to the National Trade Union Council (全国労働組合連絡協議会 "Zenrokyo"), the smallest of the three national labour federations in Japan. As of September 2010 the NUGW had around 7000 members.
The NUGW acts as an umbrella organization encompassing roughly 40 autonomous general unions and trade unions, including the National Union of General Workers Tokyo Nambu (often referred to as simply "Nambu"), a union which represents workers in southern Tokyo and Eastern Japan; the National Union of General Workers, Tokyo (also known as Tokyo Union), which represents parts of Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture, the General Union, headquartered in Osaka, representing Western Japan, the Fukuoka General Union, representing Kyūshū, and the University Teachers' Union.