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DHL strike threat widens after jobs move

Posted by | Sep 26, 2006 | |

DHL, the German company which is set to take over a multibillion-pound part of the National Health Service, was facing a strike yesterday by up to 5,000 employees in Britain who allege that management is behaving like “Victorian mill owners”.

The parcels company was accused of planning to dismiss 3,000 permanent staff to replace them with 2,500 casual workers in a move that would mean DHL did not have to make national insurance payments.

While ministers havetried to assure NHS workers being switched to DHL that the company was a good employer, unions claimed yesterday it was involved in a “race to the bottom” in terms of employment standards.

News of the strike threat at DHL Express came before a second 24-hour stoppage, starting tonight, by members of the public service union Unison at NHS Logistics, who are protesting at the takeover by the German group. The walkout coincides with a debate on the health service at the Labour Party conference in Manchester.

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DHL opens new european distribution center in Czech Republic for LEGO(R) Group

Posted by | Sep 21, 2006 | |

The LEGO Group, one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world and DHL Exel Supply Chain have opened this week a new European distribution center (DC) in Jirny near Prague. Based on a five-year contract the LEGO Group has outsourced all the logistics activities at the new DC to DHL Exel Supply Chain. As of 2007, every LEGO brick destined for Europe, Asia, Africa and South America will have passed through the Czech Republic.

DHL Exel Supply Chain’s warehouse in Jirny, located 10km outside Prague, occupies a total of 60,000 square metres and is the LEGO Group’s largest DC in Europe. The facility’s operations include standard logistics activities such as inbound and outbound logistics operations and storage, as well as value-added services.

The stock from LEGO Group’s five current distribution facilities in Europe will gradually be transferred to the new Jirny DC, and some 600 jobs will be created as a result.

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NHS delivery force on strike

Posted by | Sep 21, 2006 | |

Hundreds of NHS workers will stage the biggest strike in the health service for almost 20 years today, in a bitter row over privatisation.
Workers at NHS Logistics, who deliver goods ranging from bedpans to food to hospitals and GP surgeries across England, will walk out at 10pm for 24 hours in protest at being transferred to German-owned delivery giant DHL.
They will stage a second 24 hour stoppage on September 26 to coincide with a debate on the health service at next week’s Labour party conference.
The workers voted last week to take industrial action after the Government confirmed the transfer of their jobs to DHL in a 10-year contract which Unison said was worth GBP3.7 billion.
Karen Jennings, the union’s head of health, said: “Our members have worked hard to build NHS Logistics into an award-winning service and don’t deserve to be treated in this way. There is simply no logical explanation for this transfer.”

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DHL Global Mail expands U.S. mail terminal network with Phoenix facility

Posted by | Sep 19, 2006 | |

DHL Global Mail has expanded its Mail Terminal network in an effort to increase volume and customer demand.

Weston, FL-based DHL Global Mail said its new Phoenix Mail Terminal is expected to handle more than 25,000 mail parcels daily with capacity to quickly double its output.

Due to the expanding market needs DHL Global Mail recently opened a state of the art Mail Terminal in Kansas City, Kansas, to service increasing volumes of mail to the Midwest region.

The Phoenix Mail Terminal offers technologically advanced, full-service domestic processing for mail and mail parcels, including Smartmail Parcel residential package delivery service for shipments that are less than one pound.

The new facility has approximately 25,000 square feet and is about 20 minutes west of the Phoenix International Airport.

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DHL wins new agreement with Cellular Repair Provider

Posted by | Sep 18, 2006 | |

DHL, the express delivery and logistics company, today announced it has been selected by Overland Park, KS-based Cellect Solutions, a new cellular value added services company, as its express shipping provider.

Cellect Solutions provides warrantee return services for regional cellular service providers, coordinating cellular phone warranty repairs from the customer to the manufacturer, and providing loaner phones to cellular phone service customers while the repair is in process. Cellect Solutions will use DHL to provide loaner phones to wireless customers nationwide, ensuring cellular clients maintain uninterrupted service.

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