Though in a different section of this forum, the input I received previously was extremely helpful in assembling my column for U.S. Business Review regarding the trucking industry and fuel costs.

I am back, and would appreciate feedback on the following questions.

1) Do you believe that the company you currently drive for will vote in a union based on Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden's election, and support of the "Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, H.R. 800)", also known as “card check?"

2) If yes, how concerned are you that the company will be able to pay additional wages that teamsters normally push for?

3) Though the acquisition of Airborne Express may have led to demise of DHL in the U.S., what role, if any, do you think the recently passed new teamster agreement had on the failure of DHL?

4) If President Elect Obama does not support and push hard for passage of the "Employee Free Choice Act", how likely are you to vote for him for re-election in 2012?

Thanks for your help!

No. First, it would be very hard to do so with drivers all over the place.


uh...yeah thats not going to happen. I dont know what standards the teamsters use to determine pay...but since pay goes up dramatically, it has to come from somewhere. I dont think the companies have the coffers to do so.

I don't know. Id like to see what caused the failure. I remember a few years ago..they were doing fairly good and they had commercials on TV. Something has happened where they crashed. And taking a company that is just starting to grow and hae its workers organize....thats only dooming it to failure.

I would not vote for him at all.

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While I certainly can't speak for my company. I can speak for my perceptions of my company.

We're privately owned. And I suspect...we will be publicly SOLD, if Card Check becomes law. Piece meal if necessary.

Apply that logic to your remaining questions....and think about MY personal feelings regarding them...after my company closes the doors.

The company I work for could be better. And will get better as the economy improves. But I fail to see the logic of forcing me out of my job through coercion of spineless employees.

We chip away at our liberties, one stroke at a time. Card check is the first step in removing our voting rights.

One party or the other will simply declare they have the most registered voters...so they win. Without ever holding an election.

It's the same thing, on a larger scale.

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It's hard for me to play professional team sports. On a minor league salary.

On the DHL question , it's strange they said in January pulling out of the U.S. "can be completely ruled out " . [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. But then in May DHL ratified the Teamster contract with the union claiming the contract would provide job security . [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.

DHL worldwide is a lot larger than UPS...

all European employees are organized - and most US emplyees were organized from the very begining of theor US operations way back when.

the new contract that guys are refering to effected mechanics and a few support positions.

Times are tight - and many companies have gone under recently.

I do not think that the latest contract (which effected fewer than 3% of the companies US staff - and less than .06% of their worldwide staff) made them stop US ops.


keep in mind that DHL did not go out of buisness - they have just stopped US Express service.

The other functions will still operate.

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Faster than a 60 MPH bullet....

I have received a few packages delivered by DHL, and have never had any problems with their service. They always showed up much earlier in the day than UPS ever does to a residential location. The delivery driver was always decent and polite. I don't know anything about their inner workings though. The high fuel prices earlier this year and the current condition of the economy are going to hurt a lot more businesses though.

Out of curiosity, is Emory still around? I haven't heard their name lately. I use to work for Tax-Air Freight quite a few years ago, and we actually did the Emory deliveries in our area. I use to pick up at their Milwaukee, WI location on Saturday mornings. That was a lovely dock to get into (sarcasm)!

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Dynamite comes in small packages, Nitro comes in smaller ones, take your pick!

Emery AF's holdings were taken over by UPS several years ago.

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Google Amazon DHL and you'll see hundreds of posts complaining of poor DHL service .

Interesting . The above article said the contract covered 7,000 workers including drivers and warehousemen . How many U.S. employees does (did) DHL have ?

7000 workers "including" a handful of drivers not already organized...

a ton of office and support staff were organized in this last contract.

DHL is organized in three divisions:

• DHL Express (parts just organized)
• DHL Global Mail (just organized in US
• DHL Logistics, which is in turn further sub-divided into:
  • DHL Global Forwarding (DGF)
  • DHL Exel Supply Chain (just organized)
  • DHL Freight (union)

US workers amounted to more than 20K

worldwide workers more than 270K

last full year of service in the USA netted 6 Billion (B)illion not million dollars in revenue. (2006)


The move was more because the US market sucks right now than because of the contract.


DHL has bought out more than 110 logistics and handling companies in the past 10 years - and in "global" terms they are doing fine... They have 43% of the Worlds share of package biz - but not here.
Their competition (UPS and FEDEX) are hurting too -

in other DHL news - they invested more than 2 billion in 3 new service centers in Europe this year - and even though they gave up on US express service - they are still the primary air freight in-bounders from Europe and most of Asia to the east and west coast of the USA.

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