DHL Teamsters Question Board of Directors,
Call Out Anti-Worker Corporate Actions
BONN, Germany, May 3, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Today, DHL Teamsters from across the U.S. called
out the alarming union-busting and anti-worker tactics of the
global delivery and logistics giant during DHL Group's Annual
General Meeting (AGM) in Bonn, Germany.
Rank-and-file Teamsters, organizing committee members from DHL's
global hub at the Cincinnati/Northern
Kentucky International Airport (CVG), and Teamsters
International Vice President At-Large Juan Campos attended the
meeting to condemn DHL executives face-to-face. Union workers
grilled company executives and directors about poor safety
conditions, racial discrimination, and anti-labor behavior
practices in the U.S.
"DHL's upper management in the U.S. has created an attitude of
us-versus-them when it comes to hardworking Teamsters like me and
my brothers and sisters at CVG," said Francisco Chacon, a 29-year DHL Teamster and
shop steward with Teamsters Local 705 in Chicago. "Waging war against the workers who
make you successful is no way to run a business. It is important
that DHL's Board of Directors and the company's shareholders
understand that."
DHL-CVG sort workers are currently organizing to become
Teamsters. Despite falsely claiming to investors and German
consumers that the company respects freedom of association and
collective bargaining, DHL has launched an anti-union campaign to
try to intimidate and prevent CVG workers from exercising their
rights.
"The Teamsters' presence at DHL's annual shareholder meeting
signaled to CEO Tobias Meyer and the
board that the company's treatment of American workers is
unacceptable," said Michael Morency,
a member of the CVG Sort Workers Organizing Committee. "While DHL
presents itself as an 'employer of choice,' there is a clear
disparity in how we are treated compared to our German brothers and
sisters. Today, we highlighted this reality to both German
shareholders and consumers."
Meyer has condoned DHL's reprehensible, anti-worker behavior by
dismissing the company's illegal labor practices as a "local
management issue."
"DHL's top executives in Germany turn a blind eye to the exploitation
of American workers for the sake of profit," said Bill Hamilton, Director of the Teamsters Express
Division and International Vice President for the Eastern Region.
"Tobias Meyer has the power to end
this abuse but chooses not to. He is responsible for fostering an
environment where local management in the U.S. blatantly disregards
our labor laws and universal basic human rights. The Teamsters will
continue to shine a spotlight on these abusive practices in DHL's
backyard of Germany and across the
U.S."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
represents 1.3 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto
Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information.
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at Facebook.com/teamsters.
Contact:
Daniel
Moskowitz (770) 262-4971
dmoskowitz@teamster.org
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SOURCE International Brotherhood of Teamsters