10 Apr 2006 -
Justice at TNT

Unions in TNT around the world are organising a petition from TNT workers to the company's chief executive Peter Bakker. Check with your union representative that they are promoting this petition. Promote this petition yourself at your workplace.

Peter Bakker, CEO
TNT Corporate Headquarters
1100 KG Amsterdam
The Netherlands

You dedicated this year’s annual report to us, the employees of TNT. You referred to us as the “Orange Inside,” and state “the satisfaction of our customers is achieved through the dedication of our employees, by their willingness and ability to go the extra mile and to do whatever is necessary to exceed our customers’ expectations.” TNT’s code of business ethics goes even further by claiming to adhere to the United Nation’s labour standards and to “uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.”

Now you are trying to sell off the logistics branch of the company along with 37,000 employees. The unions that represent TNT workers around the world have met and have developed basic labour standards that would help to secure these basic rights by which TNT pledges to abide. These include:

• Sharing all key information on any proposed sale with workers;
• Maintaining maximum job security;
• Keeping existing pay, conditions, and retirement programs;
• Maintaining rights of union representation and membership activity;
• Guaranteeing all workers the right to freely choose a union and the union’s access to workers;
• Setting up a process to monitor and enforce company compliance with these standards.

We the undersigned employees of TNT ask that you honor your code of business ethics and guarantee these basic to rights as a provision of any sale of TNT Logistics: