History of Japanese Labor Unions 10

For example, if a lighting union becomes too aggressive, the company might think, "Let's hire a lighting staff member who isn't in the union."
However, film production requires excellent staff.
When a company receives requests from staff saying, "We absolutely need that lighting man," the company will hire a union lighting man, subject to certain conditions.
Because of these advantageous special conditions in the film industry, it is difficult for people in other industries to unite.
Furthermore, after the war, Japanese labor unions became company unions (as mentioned above).
Company unions cannot be formed unless all the employees of a company agree.
Union upper-level affiliates and union organizers first target large companies. These are because they have large capital and it is easy to achieve certain results.
For the companies, if they fight with a union and it does not go well, it will pose a danger to their management, so they will agree to the formation of a union.

In this way, enterprise-based labor unions began to be formed one after another in large Japanese companies.

Left: "Cinema Photography" published by the Japanese Society of Cinematographers (J.S.C.). 1989.
Right: "Cinema Lighting" published by the Japanese Motion Picture Lighting Technicians Association.1982.
In this way, each film association published its own journal. (All the books introduced here are owned by Kiryukan.)