Almost 6,000 people have signed petitions to stand up against a corporate plan that, if carried out, will take away jobs from thousands of area residents, resulting in whiplash to the Clinton County community.
About 60 people attended a Sunday afternoon meeting to confront the plan to restructure DHL’s operations in the United States — a plan expected to mean the direct loss of at least 7,000 jobs based at the DHL Air Park in Wilmington.
Many petitions have not yet been returned to organizers, but they want to go ahead and present copies of them to DHL and senior government officials in hopes it will help thwart the tentative air deal between DHL and United Parcel Service (UPS), one of DHL’s chief competitors.
Save-the-jobs organizers want the delivery of the first installment of petitions to be accompanied by a large group of people who want to preserve the jobs and protect the community. They plan to gather 10:30 a.m. next Monday at the parking lot of the Wilmington Wal-Mart Supercenter before proceeding to DHL facilities nearby.
There are plans to request that petitions be circulated soon at Sunday church services in the area.
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