Our Overview in English

POLICY

Symbolic Phrase

Friendship, Creation, Contribution

In the spirit of friendship, JPGU creates a union and businesses filled with hope, which seeks to contribute to betterment of the life of its members and to help build a fair society.

Basic Principles

JPGU’s three viewpoints

Reformist’s viewpoint

• The attainment of political reform and a citizen-centered society
• The redressing of disparities
• The realization of a gender-equal society
• Contributing to local communities
• The promotion of contributing to social and volunteer activities

Entrepreneur’s viewpoint

• Self-reformation toward the breaking up of corporations and the privatization of the
• Japanese postal services
• Business management to facilitate the integration of the Japan Post Group
• New labor movement linked with business activities
• Productivity improvement
• The development of an educational program

Trade unionist’s viewpoint

• Developing the JPGU’s labor movement with the input of union members
• The realization of good/improved working conditions after privatization
• Making a stronger and bigger union
• Cooperation with international union movements
• Better and stronger support for union members

ACTIVITY

To pursue the “true happiness of members”

(1)Achieving the membership of 300,000

For the sustainable business development of Japan Post Group, the employment security and the better working conditions of JPGU members, JPGU needs to build up a strong union membership of 300,000. Achieving this figure is one of the priority issues to realize the “true happiness of members.” Thus,JPGU is undertaking this purpose at full power.

(2)Negotiation issues

JPGU and Japan Post Group have labor-management consultation committees in which the labor and the management understand and confirm group’s management strategy and policy to have a sustainable development of the Japan Post Group with cooperation between the labor and the management.
In addition, JPGU has collected the opinions and requests from front-line workers and negotiate at the national level in order to improve their working conditions, the environment of workplaces, and so on.

(3)International Labor Movement and UNI

JPGU is affiliated with Union Network International (UNI) that consists of 900 unions and 20 million members across the world. JPGU president, serving as president of UNI-Apro Post and Logistics, and president of UNI-Liaison Council of Japan, is vigorously carrying out international labor movement with UNI colleagues from the global viewpoint.
In 2010, when the 3rd UNI world congress was held in Nagasaki, Japan, a lot of JPGU volunteer members joined to help that congress. JPGU continues to foster union members who are able to play active roles in the international trade union movement.

(4)Youth and Women

(5)JPGU Research Institute

JPGU has its own research organ where postal & logistics, finance, and labor policy issues are studied, the results are then published.

FUTURE

The Creation of the JPGU and its roles

The creation of the JPGU labor movement and our goals

Development of the JPGU’s movement

• Improvement of union member services
• Constructing a new relationship between labor and management
• Better policy making and writing of better proposals by JPGU
• The JPGU’s support of politicians and political groups friendly to our organization
• Achieving better balance between work and one’s free time/home life
• The contribution to local communities

ORGANIZATION

Decision-making body and the executive organ

The activities of JPGU are carried out by Central Executive Committee based on determinations of the National Congress and the Central Committee.