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The Japan Postal Group Union held the 7th annual congress on June 18-20 in Nagoya.  About 1600 delegates, observers, and guests came together through Japan and talked important challenges faced by the JPGU. Japan Post is scheduled to go public sometime in next year of 2015. One of the key issues was the IPO of Japan Post. The congress also talked the progress of its medium-term management plan, job security for the future, and improvement of working conditions worthy for listed company. Furthermore, it discussed about 300,000 union membership building.

As the guest of overseas union, Bro. Cheng Kuang-ming, president of the Chunghwa Postal Workers’ Union (CPWU), delivered a speech to the participants of the congress. In his speech, “we have paid close attention to the privatization of Japan Post and recent reforms which will have deep and far-reaching influence on Chunghwa Post and CPWU. We will also watch very closely the future development of Japan Post as we look to Japan Post as a role model Chunghwa Post and CPWU can learn from… We sincerely hope CPWU and JPGU will continue to strengthen and deepen the mutual cooperation together and look forward to further growth and prosperity of the two postal service providers and unions.”

Delegates voted for the annual union's new policy and approve it on the final day. Its national congress was successfully over.