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During the 2016 spring offensive the Japanese Federation of Labour Bank Unions ( Zenrokin ) jointly campaigned to regularise the non-regular employees working in the banks. Fourteen unions affiliated to the federation worked in solidarity to persuade the respective management to respond to their collective demand. 

Management responded positively on 4th April 2016, all non-regular employees were absorbed in to the permanent cadre except in one bank. Zenrokin also managed to increase wages of the non-regulars resulting in an average increase over 4000 Japanese Yen for employees in 6 affiliated unions and won annual bonus increase for the non-regular employees in 4 companies.  

Shingo Suetome President of ZENROKIN said, all member unions acting in solidarity enabled the federation to achieve good benefits for the members. Zenrokin negotiated and signed an industry wide agreement with the National Association of Labour Banks in Japan. Salient features of the agreement signed after the spring offensive 2016 are; an increase of minimum wage and premium rate of pay for working on a holiday from 35% to 50%.