神津連合会長が退任意向　後任選び本格化へ

　労働組合の中央組織、連合の神津里季生会長が１０月の任期満了で退任する意向であることが４日、分かった。退任すれば６年ぶりの交代。神津氏は３期目で、在任の長期化を理由に退任する意向を漏らしている。今後、後任選びが本格化する見通しだ。
　連合会長の任期は１期２年。３期６年務めると、１９８９年の連合発足以来最長だった古賀伸明前会長と並ぶ。（2021/06/04-22:04）

Rikio Kozu, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, plans to step down when he reaches the end of his current third two-year term in October, it was learned Friday.
   Kozu has told people around him that he is going to retire, citing his long tenure as leader of the country's national trade union center, informed sources said.
   If he completes his current term, Kozu will become the longest-serving Rengo president to tie Nobuaki Koga, who was in the post for six years from October 2009 to October 2015.
   In 2017, the labor group considered a plan for Kozu to quit as president after a single two-year term and promote then general secretary Naoto Omi, now acting president, to the top post.
   But the plan was scrapped after Omi came under fire from member unions over his stance regarding a revision of the labor standards law, and Kozu was reappointed president as a result. Kozu then decided to serve his third term for the stability of the organization.