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10 days later: DHL's union busting is being challenged all over the world

Thank you so much to everyone who supported this campaign, which we launched 10 days ago. With 3,655 supporters so far, the company is taking notice. We hope to win this campaign very soon so please -- spread the word in your union, let's mobilise many more people to send messages to DHL today. Please click here to learn more and to send off your message of protest and solidarity.   And meanwhile in Hong Kong ...

It has been just three days since we learned of the sentence handed out to Hong Kong trade union leader Lee Cheuk-yan. Since then, thousands of you have sent off your messages of protest in a campaign sponsored by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and other global unions. The campaign is here: Click here to send off your message! We need many more of you to do so.  Please share this message with your friends, family and fellow union members.

New podcast: Interview with South Korean union leader Chanyoung Heo Chanyoung is leader of a small union in Korea that represents workers at Kuehne+Nagel, a German-owned logistics company.  For 20 years, industrial relations at the company were good.  Now they aren't.  What happened?  Why did the workers vote overwhelmingly to go on strike? Listen to the podcast to learn more, including about the company's new manager, imported from Europe, who told the union that he did not feel bound by a collective bargaining agreement which he did not sign.  Yes, really.  He said that. Hear the whole interview here.   In Europe, one union has been giving cleaners a voice with a remarkable new podcast series. Today I interviewed Mark Bergfeld. about the two groups of workers represented by UNI Europa's Property Services department -- security guards and cleaners. Mark explained some of the issues that these workers face and the challenge of organising them into unions. UNI Europa recently produced a five-part podcast series about these workers entitled "Unsung Cleaners" in which the workers speak and we get to hear their own voice and words.  It had a surprisingly large listenership.   Click here to hear the whole interview. And remember - you can also listen to LabourStart Podcasts on your favourite podcasting platform - Spotify, Apple, etc.