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TRUCKING JOBS * WORLDWIDE - DHL employees fights global battle for fair work treatment
London,UK -Road Freight News (Australia) -12 November 2009: -- Employees of multinational giant DHL will be challenging the company to honour its promises of fair treatment for all workers as part of a worldwide week of action from November 9 to 13... According to the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the event is part of an ongoing joint campaign with UNI Global Union for fair work rights for all DHL workers globally... Currently activities are planned in Austria, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Panama, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago...* USA - Transport workers file labour violation complaint
New York,NY,USA -ITF Global -13 November 2009: -- Transport workers in the US have filed a complaint with the International Labour Organization (ILO) concerning New York state legislation, which bans strike action among public sector employees... The ITF-affiliated Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) submitted a complaint to the ILO’s committee on freedom of association over New York state’s Taylor law, which bars public sector workers from embarking on strike action. Flouting the law is punishable by extensive fines, imprisonment and suspension of union subscription payments... The complaint it also calls on the ILO to recommend that the Taylor law be amended to ensure it complies with international labour standards and that the union receive a full reimbursement to cover the fines they were forced to pay... (Photo: Sanderk, CC-by-sa: TWU picket in NYC in 2005)Labels: drivers unionization
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