BUSINESS ETHICSRishabh Chowdhry

Introduction

Couriers of DHL Express India (Pvt.) Ltd., the Indian arm of

German mail and logistics company Deutsche Post DHL, in

several centres have alleged that the company is preventing

them from joining the DHL Employees Union.

What led to the uprising ?

• Lack of recognition

• Poor working conditions

• Informal working hours

• Pay disputes

• Less or no job security

• The International Workers Transport Federation recently discovered that in India, DHL have begun to carry out a campaign of retaliation and intimidation against union activists.

• Worker who stand up to management are sent to worksites hundreds of kilometres away separating them from their families and creating unnecessary and unfair financial burdens.

These measures are clearly efforts to

intimidate workers and to weaken

the union.

Recent protests in Delhi by DHL

employees

A number of protests have taken place by the DHL employees

against the company’s policiesand working.

• DHL couriers in Jaipur, Delhi, Kolkata and Pune

joined the union after 2012 and wanted the company

to resolve their collective grievances regarding

working conditions and wages.

• DHL management refuses to recognise couriers as

workers and insists that couriers in Delhi, Kolkata,

Jaipur, Pune etc. are in Hay grade MANAGERIAL

STAFF and therefore they have no trade union rights.

Expected outcome

• Right to association

• Right to collective bargaining

• Annual Increment

• Pay Performance

• End to victimisation

• Withdrawal of suspensions

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