Union Video Demands DHL Respect its Workers as Company Plans to Relocate Facility for "Convenience"

NYON, Switzerland, February 23, 2010 - Unions are blasting German-based post and logistics company Deutsche Post
DHL for the betrayal of its hallmark value of respect in a new video that
highlights the company's failure to respect worker's rights worldwide.

Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOyql_iXIg

DHL is currently trampling workers rights in Belgium, where the company
is set to shut down its European headquarters near Brussels Airport and put
788 people out of work. The company will move the work to Bonn, Leipzig and
Prague.

The company said the decision was made simply for convenience and will
not produce any cost savings. Fewer than 5 percent of workers said they could
relocate to the new facilities.

DHL is also refusing to negotiate the severance packages with the union
and says it will only engage individually with workers, a move which will
likely mean that many workers will receive much less than they would if the
union represented them.

The DHL Workers Network, a global network of over 200,000 workers in more
than 50 unions, has put together a video message for the company, demanding
that it show respect to its workers and sign a global agreement that will
make its commitments to workers rights clear and its responsibilities
explicit.

Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOyql_iXIg

The DHL Workers Network, an alliance of unions representing the company's
employees around the world who are affiliated to global union federations UNI
Global Union and the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), is
standing in solidarity with its sisters and brothers in Belgium.

"The company has shown no regard for 788 working families in Belgium who
will see one of their earners out of a job in the coming year," said Neil
Anderson, head of UNI Post and Logistics. "This is a devastating blow for
hundreds of workers who may not be able to find work in this difficult
environment."

UNI, the global union for skills and services, represents 2.5 million
postal sector workers.

Contact: Rachel Cohen, UNI Global Union Communications,
Rachel.cohen@uniglobalunion.org, +41-79-888-0753

Contact: Rachel Cohen, UNI Global Union Communications, Rachel.cohen at uniglobalunion.org, +41-79-888-0753