Dear Union Brothers and Sisters:
For well over a year now DHL Express has continued to cut more and more drivers from their' ranks of employment with the explanation that, "The company is losing millions of dollars per day" as if only the drivers are responsible for this!!!.....I believe that this has been done for so long that station managers (or their' surrogates) have found a new career!!!...Although not actually being involved in servicing the customers, they have a huge insight as to providing better and more efficient use of fewer drivers to deliver and pickup to customers in even larger geographic service areas.....A very unrealistic expectation with an equally unachievable goal.
Once again DHL management, in St. Louis, has placed a new bid for the week after Christmas to cut more drivers because the company anticipates the volume of freight to decrease after Christmas....Yeah Right!!!! So anyway, many more will be laid off unless freight volumes stay the same or increase..... I have never seen a company wanting to and wishing for a slow down of business, as in the loss of customers in order to reduce labor costs, throughout the history of time!!!..... Drivers are in an uproar and all that management says is that "They" (the company) are requiring us to cut hours and "We should be able to operate according to the numbers being crunched"...... Everyone is demanding to know who "They" are but no names or phone numbers are given to any of us....I believe, as does most everyone else, local management does not want drivers to have open communication with higher company executives to share or express our' concerns about workplace practices and proceedures.
It is time for DHL Teamsters throughout this country to start stirring up the pile of **** that "They" are dishing out so management will have to swim in it as well!!!!!! If the company was seriously worried about cutting labor costs "They" would get rid of all the individuals that do not deliver or pickup freight, since their jobs do not contribute and are not providing the services for which our' customers have paid!!....... How much money is the company losing daily by paying "bean counters", that have never physically performed our' work to constantly implement ideas that will not work!.....Theory and analysis looks great on paper but the problem is in its' real life application!!!
DHL's recent efforts to circumvent and undermine the National Contract, by offering ridiculous monetary "buy-outs" in exchange for getting rid of full-time jobs as well as decreasing wages and benefits, is a shameful insult to all of our' intelligence....Teamster members have spent their' lives working at DHL and the company has a moral obligation to uphold its' part of the negotiated and legal National Contract... If DHL respected its' drivers, that have made an employment career with them, "They" could certainly make a SERIOUS offer and provide "buy-outs" that do not attempt to change or even effect the current contract at all.......
Fraternally,
The Doctor
Douglas Riddle Local 600
DHL Mismanagement!!!!!!!!!
. If we stopped working overtime and running around out there on our expanded runs like crazy men, we may have saved some jobs. I'm off the job now since Sept. 09 and glad for it. I really hated that place at the end. In my opinion, DHL is a low class operation at the top. I'm pissed off about the whole event (DHL & Local 295). Changing the requirements for retirement, I am loosing about $700,000 of income over the next 20 years. And don't forget about the loss of medical insurance. There are a lot of guilty people at the top in regards to this DHL mess. DHL, the Teamsters and some politicians.
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