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(15:00 GMT)
France
FO Transports held a meeting today for 15 union activists responsible for the different sectors of DHL including logistics and express. The meeting discussed ways of working together within the group and on a European and global level. The union is hoping to make contact with colleagues in UPS and FedEx and organise similar meetings.
(Phone reports by Myriam Coulet and Stéphane Lagedamon, FO Transports)
Germany
Ver.di produced a leaflet for the global delivery action day, which was distributed by union organisers to workers in each of the integrator companies but focusing particularly on UPS. Some of the organisers visited various facilities in southern Germany. This included targeting a UPS office in Stuttgart where activists handed out leaflets and talked to workers.
(Phone report by Detlef Dreyer, ver.di)
South Africa
SATAWU held lunchtime pickets outside Johannesburg’s main airport specifically targeting DHL, which has three companies in South Africa; they each treat employees differently. The union activists held a meeting with DHL management and presented a memo requesting that the three DHL companies amalgamate in order to ensure that all employees are treated equally. They also called for DHL to stop harassing their colleagues in India. DHL management refused to talk and walked out of the meeting. The union has declared that if DHL does not respond to the union’s memo members will take strike action on 14 January. Another meeting with management has been scheduled for Monday 10 December. (Phone report by Liver Makua, SATAWU)
Spain
CC.OO union organisers distributed global delivery action day leaflets in the workplaces of the integrator companies, focusing particularly on DHL. They also distributed material in the canteens and other social areas. The union organisers arranged a number of meetings to discuss the collective bargaining agreements in these companies.
(Phone report by Juan Luis Garcia Revuelta, CC.OO)
