Here we will post news focusing on the global delivery giant FedEx and the work that the ITF and its affiliates are carrying out through the global delivery network. This includes everything from international solidarity with global delivery workers and their unions on the frontline, organising campaigns, issues concerning casualisation of the workforce to union [...]
Fedex has agreed to a US$3 million settlement after the US government found evidence that the company’s recruitment practices were discriminatory. The US department of labour found that recruitment practices at the global delivery firm discriminated against people on grounds of their sex, race and national origin. Incidences of discrimination were recorded at 23 of [...]
Union activists from the big four global delivery firms based in South Africa put their heads together recently to talk about ways of improving workers’ rights. The unionists from across South Africa met in Pretoria from 9 – 11 November. The event was split into two sessions, with DHL unionists meeting on 9 November and [...]
Fedex management in Chennai, India, has ignored an ITF invitation to meet to discuss ways of ending the victimisation allegedly faced by unionists based there. In a letter dated 11 November, ITF general secretary David Cockroft invited Michael Ducker, chief executive officer of Fedex Express, to meet with him on 14 or 15 November while [...]
Workers at Fedex in Chennai, India, have been awarded a significant pay rise, following union pressure and ITF backing. The workers represented by the Global Domestic Courier Services General Employees’ Union (GDCS) have for the first time received an annual increment, providing them with a wage hike of almost 50 per cent – from INR [...]
The ITF-affiliated Teamsters union has announced plans to launch an organising campaign to recruit Fedex Freight workers across the Southern California region of the US. The announcement was made on 1 July at the union’s international convention in Las Vegas, where delegates passed a resolution on the company. The union acknowledged, however, that the task [...]
The ITF is urging unions around the world to send protest letters to Fedex management in India in support of workers who are planning strike action at the company. The workers, represented by the ITF-affiliated Global Domestic Courier Services General Employees’ Union (GDCS union), announced on 17 June that they would take strike action because [...]
The ITF and UNI are calling on the global delivery network to support Fedex workers in Chennai who will stage a walk-out at the beginning of July over the company’s failure to honour its demands. ITF affiliate the Global Domestic Courier Service General Employees’ Union, GDCS has stated that management has deliberately used delaying tactics [...]
A union in India has served Fedex with a strike notice in protest over the company’s failure to honour its demands. The ITF-affiliated Global Domestic Courier Services General Employees’ Union (GDCS union) served a strike notice to the operational manager at Fedex Express Services in Chennai on 17 June. The workers will take stage a [...]
Hourly paid workers at FedEx’s Paris hub at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport have shown they are prepared to fight for a fair pay rise above the ‘derisory’ one per cent offered by the highly profitable global delivery company. Flights to Memphis, Dubai and European cities were cancelled and freight shipping and parcel deliveries delayed after 700 day [...]
FedEx Corp. has agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle a dispute with Montana over the classification of its FedEx Ground delivery drivers as independent contractors and not employees, the state attorney general said Wednesday. FedEx Ground also will change its business model as part of the settlement from 40 independent contractors to an unknown [...]
