A labor election is scheduled for Thursday among nearly 470 DHL employees in Wilmington. They will vote whether they want to be organized for collective bargaining by the American Postal Workers Union, by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, or neither.
Eligible voters include all full-time and regular part-time workers employed by DHL Express Inc. at the DHL Air Park in DHL's Gateway, International Services, and Shipment Recovery Center departments. Excluded within those departments are all office clerical employees, maintenance employees, temporary, casual and seasonal employees, and all professional employees, guards and supervisors.
Although the ballot contains three options, one of the three choices must nonetheless receive a majority of the ballots cast to declare a winner, according to Laura Atkinson, assistant to the National Labor Relations Board regional director in Cincinnati. The National Labor Relations Board is a government agency that oversees union elections.
Reader Comments Posted: Monday, December 03, 2007
Article comment by:
Bo Vandiver
I feel that we the workers at DHL would be doing the right thing by being organized by the APWU.They are the union who represents the UNITED STATES POST OFFICES in all of the UNITED STATES,for one, seeing how we handel mail ,and you dont here anything about the post offices having issues like we do at DHL ,and often you here about companies that are organized by the TEAMSTERS having all sorts of issues,like going on strike,losing their jobs,etc...And for another thing ,they say that UPS in Wilmington is one of the TEAMSTERS best UNION contracts,the part time workes start out at 9.50 an hr.We all know that DHL is doing away with fulltime work.The APWU made it possible to pettition for our elegtion at DHL with over 70 percent of workers for the APWU,The Teamsters got on the ballot with only 10 percent.APWU yes.Temsters must go.
Posted: Thursday, November 30, 2006
Article comment by:
mary
If DHL is having issues now - they will have even more if if the APWU becomes their union for the employees
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