A two-year project to organise up to 3,000 DHL workers in Hong Kong has been launched as part of a global strategy to unionise the key hubs of one of the world's leading logistic and integrator multinationals.
At the same time UNI is to open a development and organising centre - a UNIdoc - in Hong Kong to back the DHL project and others under consideration in other sectors.
Backing the DHL project are ver.di and the FES foundation of Germany, UNI and UNI-Asia Pacific along with Hong Kong's Union of Postal Employees (UPOE).
The aim is to roll out a union for DHL workers in Hong Kong by the end of the year and, following initial research, set up a project team with an action plan and milestones to measure progress over the next two years.
On July 7 a team led by ver.di's Rolf Buttner and accompanied by UNI Tokyo's Eiichi Ito met DHL's Hong Kong management at Chek Lap Kok airport to discuss the developments.
DHL operates in more than 200 countries with 238 gateways and 170,000 workers worldwide.
Ver.di has built 95% membership in DHL's Leipzig hub and US affiliate the Teamsters is organising at the Wilmington, Ohio hub - with all pilots there now unionised and an organising campaign planned for sort staff.
Rolf Buttner sits on the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post World Net, which owns DHL - a fast growing integrator that recently bought Exel of the UK. Full story here.........
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