The Japan Postal Group Union (JPGU, ) is a

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representing employees of

Japan Post Holdings is a Japanese publicly traded Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It is mainly engaged in postal and logistics business, financial window business, banking business and life insura ...

. The union was founded on 1 October 2007, with the merger of the Japan Postal Workers' Union and the

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, inspired by the privatisation of

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. Like both its predecessors, it became affiliated with the

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. It grew from 216,186 members in 2009, to 243,754 in 2020.

External links

*{{official website, https://www.jprouso.or.jp/

References

Postal trade unions Trade unions established in 2007 Public sector trade unions in Japan