JICHIRO's Services to Members

In addition to a trade union's basic function of demanding our employers to improve the working conditions for our members, JICHIRO established All-Japan Prefectural and Municipal Worker's Cooperative Society (JICHIRO KYOSAI) in order to offer a pension and insurance scheme for union members. JICHIRO KYOSAI has created various types of mutual aid programs (insurance). These activities began in 1966 with a program pooling funds for congratulatory and condolence gift money among union members. Later it also included automobile and fire insurance, which were indemnity insurance programs. Then, in 1981, we established schemes such as "Mutual Aid Benefit Scheme","Group Term Life Insurance" and "Education Fund Insurance".

There is another insurance program, which deals with material damage incurred during travel, and injuries from recreational or sports activities. The special features of these schemes are that the premiums are much lower than those of similar plans offered by private insurance companies.

They are available to JICHIRO members and their families, in some cases to retirees as well.

Today with the economy hardly growing and little hope of gaining large wage increases, JICHIRO KYOSAI's scheme has become increasingly important. As a result, the number of subscribers to all these plans has increased consistently.

At present, the group term life insurance has over 1 million subscribers including member's families, some 300,000 vehicles are enrolled in the automobile insurance plan, and more than 300,000 houses or apartments are in the fire insurance plan.