On November 13 RENGO endorsed its “2001-2003 Organizational Expansion Goal” based on its Union Building/Acton Plan 21 at the 36th Central Committee Meeting. In it, RENGO set a two-year goal (from October 2001 to September 2003) to expand its organization to 600,000 members. Affiliated organizations and local RENGO are to report every six months to the central executive committee in an organizational expansion milestone report.

At RENGO's 7th Regular Convention (biennial) organizational expansion was endorsed as the first top priority issue in the 21st century and it was decided that affiliated organizations, RENGO headquarters and local RENGO would all team up together to work on “Union Building/Acton Plan 21.”

Specifically, the following points were endorsed when working for future organizational expansion activities. (1) it is important to allocate organizers specialized in improving local industrial federations (=affiliates) and expanding organizations,(2) there is an urgent need to expand the breadth of members to include non-ordinary workers including part-time and dispatched workers, (3) actively work to organize fellow workers at local/small to mid-sized businesses and associated ventures (4) To achieve this, it is vital that affiliated organizations, local affiliates, RENGO headquarters and local RENGO all act together for organizational expansion. Further, at the convention it was decided that all parties should carry on the mission knowing that the consequences of implementing organizational expansion will affect the rise and fall of future labor movements.

Therefore, this central committee endorsed the goal of organizational expansion as follows and will develop activities for it. This goal is set from October 2001 to September 2003 and comprises the goals of affiliated organizations, local RENGO, and RENGO headquarters.

Total number for organizational expansion goal (October 2001 to September 2003) 1. Based on the “Union Building/Action Plan 21” the total number for the goal of RENGO organizational expansion for the term October 2001 to September 2003 was set at 600,000. This number was derived from the sum of reported target numbers submitted by affiliates, local RENGO, and RENGO headquarters, which are underpinned with specific numbers given by listing the objectives. 2. The individual target numbers to set up the total number for the goal of organizational expansion: (1) Affiliated organizations' target number for expansion: 533,471 members. However, that there is some overlap in the count among affiliate organizations. (2) Local RENGO's target number for expansion: 14,940 members. (3) RENGO headquarters' target number for expansion: 60,000 members.