Unions to demonstrate at DHL’s AGM tomorrow

Trade union representatives meeting in Frankfurt as part of a mission to hold the big five worldwide logistics companies to account will rally at DHL’s annual general meeting in the city tomorrow, 25th May.
 

Representatives from the ITF and UNI global union’s joint global delivery network will protest from 08h30 onwards outside the DHL AGM in Frankfurt, and will also put questions on the treatment of workers and their rights direct to the meeting inside.

The network’s meeting, which closes later today, has been working on building union rights in the big five logistics companies: DHL, UPS, TNT, FedEx and DPD Geopost.

Neil Anderson, UNI global union head of post & logistics, said: "We want to remind DHL that a global player needs a global agreement; its workers are crying out for a global framework agreement that guarantees all of them basic work and union rights."

According to ITF’s Ingo Marowsky, DHL is being put on notice that decent fundamental conditions should apply wherever they employ people, and not end at the German border.

UNI Post & Logistics is the global union for the postal and logistics industry, representing 2.5 million workers worldwide. The ITF represents transport trade unions, with 4.6 million members worldwide.

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