Teamsters to DHL: Executive Pay Fails
Workers, Reject It
BONN, Germany, April 30,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Union will present
a countermotion urging investors to reject DHL Group's executive
remuneration report at the company's Annual General Meeting in
Bonn, Germany, on Friday, May 3.
While purportedly tying executives' annual bonuses to DHL's
employment practices, the board's "employee engagement" metric is
flawed and lacks critical disclosure. As a result, senior
executives reap lucrative bonuses every year despite DHL's
worsening labor practices in the US. Over the past two years,
workers have been fighting back by organizing with the Teamsters at
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG),
DHL's global hub in North
America.
"In the US, DHL has become a notoriously anti-union company
known for poor working conditions and violating workers' rights.
Supervisors at CVG have referred to workers as 'inmates' and treat
them as if DHL was running a prison," said Bill Hamilton, Director of the Teamsters Express
Division and Teamsters Eastern Region International Vice President.
"DHL workers are operating in a culture of intimidation, fear, and
constant disrespect. It is outrageous that DHL executives are being
awarded massive bonuses when the company needs to be taking care of
the people who make it so rich."
CVG sort package handlers currently organizing with the
Teamsters have no guaranteed breaks and little to no notice of
schedule changes. They are regularly required to work grueling
hours without breaks, in violation of state and federal law. Some
CVG workers have resorted to wearing diapers while sorting
packages.
Ramp and tug workers at CVG represented by the Teamsters faced
equally abysmal conditions prior to joining the union. In 2023, a
Black worker was pulled off his forklift and physically assaulted
by a white supervisor. The supervisor still works for DHL despite
the violent incident.
DHL was forced last week to settle an $8.7 million racial discrimination lawsuit with
members of Teamsters Local 705 in Chicago.
"At the most basic level, DHL's actions at CVG violate the
company's own code of conduct. The way workers are treated at CVG
is strikingly at odds with DHL's goal of being the 'employer of
choice,'" Hamilton said. "The company's weak employee engagement
surveys do not reflect the reality on the ground — which is a
dangerous, inequitable environment for workers fueled by global
corporate greed."
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