Trade unions to demonstrate at DHL AGM in Frankfurt tomorrow

Trade union to demonstrate at DHL AGM in Frankfurt tomorrow

May 24 2011 - 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, 25 May.

Representatives from the ITF and UNI global union’s joint global delivery network, which has been meeting in the city this week, will protest from 08.30 onwards outside the DHL AGM at the Kultur-und Kongresszentrum, Jahrhunderthalle GmbH, Pfaffenwiese 301, 65929 Frankfurt am Main (www.jahrhunderthalle.de). They will also put questions on the treatment of workers and their rights direct to the meeting inside.

The network’s meeting closes later today, and 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 and logistics, stated: “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.”

ITF organising globally coordinator Ingo Marowsky added: “DHL are being put on notice that decent fundamental conditions should apply wherever they employ people, and not end at the German border.”

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