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DHL employees have vowed to begin a programme of industrial action after managers rejected a union plan to keep open the DHL European headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
The three Belgian unions presented the plan to managers at DHL during a European Works Council select committee meeting on 11 February in a bid to avert the closure of the company’s European headquarters in Brussels. The closure is set to affect 788 jobs.
In a meeting on 18 February Deutsche Post DHL management unilaterally ended the first phase of consultation with the unions on the closure and rejected all the unions’ arguments in favour of retaining DHL’s Belgian European headquarters. Managers also refused to participate in an open discussion with the employees and unions or to present them with details of the relocation and redundancy packages available to them. In addition, management would not to enter into negotiations with unions on social plans for those who are unable to move and who will lose their jobs. As a result, workers have been unable to make an informed decision about their future.
In response to this management intransigence, DHL employees based at the Brussels headquarters decided during a staff meeting on 18 February to begin industrial action with the support of Belgian unions. They will continue to demand fair negotiations and clarity about their future.
UNI and the ITF are backing their Belgian colleagues in any industrial action and other steps they are taking in their fight for a fair deal from management.
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