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5 December 2007
Workers across the world are uniting today in a bid to persuade the big four global delivery companies to turn their commitment to social justice into action.
Under the auspices of the joint ITF/Union Network International global delivery action day, unions are calling on DHL, Fedex, UPS and TNT to ensure that labour rights for all staff, regardless of where they are based, are honoured. Some of the companies are leaders in developing corporate responsibility programmes but often fail to implement these across national boundaries.
Activities organised during today’s action day have so far included: wage report-back meetings, part of national negotiations at TNT, and discussions with members at DHL, UPS and Fedex organised by the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia; leafleting and discussions with workers at the main DHL hub in Hong Kong, organised by UNI and the Federation of Hong Kong Transport Workers’ Organizations; and a global delivery workshop set up by the Transport Corporation Employees’ Union in Mauritius, which brought together 150 workers employed by UPS, TNT and Fedex.
Meanwhile in South Africa, the South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union held lunchtime pickets outside Johannesburg’s main airport, calling on DHL to treat workers at all three of its companies in South Africa equally and to stop harassing colleagues in India. The union presented the managing director with a memo outlining its demands and pledged strike action if the company failed to respond.
More information: visit http://www.itfglobal.org/campaigns/delivery.cfm
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