总工会与社区工会主要是由中小企业的职工组成,并以地域为基础组织建立的,超越了企业间机构限制的工会。更重要的是,这样的工会允许劳动者以个人身份参加。由于日本宪法和劳动法并没有在组织形式方面区别对待不同的工会,宪法和法律都保障了总工会和社区工会与企业工会以及其他形式的工会享有同样的集体结社、集体谈判和集体 The main trade unions and community unions are mainly trade unions that are composed of staff of SMEs and are established on a geographical basis and go beyond institutional restrictions of enterprises. More importantly, such unions allow workers to participate in their personal capacity. Since the Japanese constitution and labor law do not discriminate between different trade unions in terms of organizational form, both the constitution and the law guarantee the same collective association, collective bargaining and collective rights of the trade unions and community unions and the corporate unions and other forms of labor unions