This independent academic investigation, based on interviews with workers in Chile, Panama and Colombia, has found that German multinational Deutsche Post DHL “grievously and systematically” fails to live up to its own procedures, aspirations and promises set out in its ‘Code of Conduct’, as well as to international labor standards.
The report is based on interviews with DHL workers in Chile, Colombia and Panama, here’s an exert:
This activity clearly breaches the Deutsche Post DHL Code of Conduct that enshrines International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions 87 and 98 on freedom of association, and the rights to organize and to collective bargaining.
“This commitment should make DHL a beacon of good conduct in Latin America”, said the reports author, Dr Victor Figueroa Clark of the London School of Economics. “Sadly, the evidence from the workers I interviewed for my report paints an overwhelmingly different picture. The multiple, frequent and institutional anti-union practices described in this report are difficult to interpret as anything but the result of an anti-union policy originating from the heart of the company in Germany”.