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The two labor unions of Japan Post may be integrated into a 230,000-strong union by the time the public corporation is privatized starting in October 2007, a union leader said Wednesday. All Japan Postal Labor Union Chairman Akira Miyashita told a meeting of the 87,000-member union’s central committee that the union will consider its integration with the 140,000-member Japan Postal Workers’ Union to increase their bargaining power. The All Japan Postal Labor Union spun off in 1965 from the Japan Postal Workers’ Union, which was founded in 1946.

Japan Post Corp. will recruit private-sector experts in financial and international parcel delivery services before the privatization of Japan’s state-run postal services begins in 2007, company officials said Sunday.
Securing such experts to compete with private-sector companies is a pressing task for the company, which mainly consists of officials from the public corporation Japan Post, they said. Japan Post Corp., created last Monday by the public corporation as a new stock firm, will convert itself into a holding company in October 2007 to place four postal services companies under its wing.
Most of Japan Post Corp.’s 45 employees are from the public corporation, with their status changing from that of public employee to private-sector official. Japan Post Corp. plans to eventually boost the number of its workers to 100.