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Union video demands respect for DHL workers worldwide
25 February 2010
A new union video has condemned global delivery firm Deutsche Post DHL for betraying its hallmark value of respect for workers.
The video, launched by global union UNI and the ITF under the auspices of the DHL Workers’ Network, which comprises more than 50 unions globally, highlights the company’s failure to respect workers’ rights worldwide. The video message demands that DHL respect its workers and sign a global agreement that will make its commitments to workers’ rights clear and its responsibilities explicit.
DHL is currently trampling workers’ rights in Belgium, where the company is set to shut down its European headquarters near Brussel’s Zaventem Airport and put 880 people out of work. The company will move the work to Bonn, Leipzig and Prague, as well as further afield to Costa Rica.
The decision, claims DHL, was made for convenience and will not produce any cost savings. Fewer than five per cent of workers said that they would be able to relocate to the new facilities.
DHL is also refusing to negotiate the severance packages with the union and says it will only engage individually with workers, a move likely to mean that many workers will receive much less than they would if the union represented them.
“The company has shown no regard for 880 working families in Belgium who will see one of their earners out of a job in the coming year,” said Neil Anderson, head of UNI post and logistics. “This is a devastating blow for hundreds of workers who may not be able to find work in this difficult environment.”
View the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOyql_iXIg
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