Voices from the Workplace
Click on the audio files below to listen to workers in the integrator companies describing why organising is important locally, nationally and globally.
Jens Ole Neilsen
DHL
Fagligt Fælles Forbund (3F)
Copenhagen Airport, Denmark
"When we are working in such a global situation I think international solidarity and communication is maybe the best way to solve some of the problems there are with multinational companies. It is maybe the only way. I hope that the result of this action day, the 9th of November, will open up for more organising and for more collective agreement around the world."
Connie Van Den Bosch
DHL Sorting Centre
Syndicat des Employés, Techniciens et Cadres de Belgique
Brussels Airport, Belgium
"The World Wide International Action day will be the first step in the right directions to bring the integrators issues under the public attention"
Mary Makaluso
DHL
IBT Local 295
JFK Airport (New York), US
"Company workers need to come together and stick together to gain strength and unity and to have a voice for their future ... We're approaching our Integrators Action Day on November 9th. We're hoping it's a big turn-out for DHL workers to join the Teamsters to become part of a strong union."
Don Schmidt
Service Agent - DHL
IBT Local 295
JFK Airport (New York), US
"Organising is extremely important on both the national and global level. Global corporatisation is growing more powerful everyday to the detriment of working people, and union membership can help off set that ... As far as the Action Day, the Teamsters is organising activities to increase awareness of workers both union and non-union and corporations as well, because we want them to know that we are really serious about this and we mean business."
Joel Chase
Pilot - ABX Air
IBT Local 1224
Wilmington (Ohio), US
"International worker solidarity will be very important with the multinational corporations. It is a great way to level the playing field so that workers in all these different nations and the different countries can bargain for good, solid contracts that are beneficial to both DHL and the workers."
Dean Mann
Transportation Lead - ABX Air
Wilmington (Ohio), US
"The most important thing about organising is that the people that come together to form a union make the union more powerful and there is more power for the workers."
Tom Pirantini
Aircraft Mechanic - ABX Air
Wilmington (Ohio), US
"Any time workers communicate and band together, they win ... [My expectation for the Action Day is], to band together as workers and show we are one."
Ronnie Heeber
ABX Air
Wilmington (Ohio), US
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