Overwhelming vote for Andrea Kocsis

Publié: 12 Avril 2011
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Sabine Schielmann addresses the conference





The Conference Committee

 Andrea Kocsis was re-elected with more than 95% of the vote as the President of verdi Post & Logistics sector at the sector's conference being held in Wurzburg, Germany today. The delegates with the vote sent a message of total confidence in her leadership and the work the union is doing to organise post & logistics workers in Germany and to advance their claims.



Earlier in the day Sabine Schielmann had been elected President of the post part of the sector. The "all woman" theme for the elections commenced the day before when the delegates had elected an all women conference committee.



Speaking at the conference, Neil Anderson, Head of UNI Post & Logistics told the delegates that UNI and the ITF strongly supported their efforts to organise all workers in the global delivery industry and that their success in organising workers in UPS, FedEx and GeoPost /DPD as well of course as the support of their huge membership in DeutschePost DHL, was an achievement that should be recognised as the way forward for unions in the industry. He said UNI and ITF would not stop in their campaign to get Deutsche Post DHL to respect workers rights and the support of verdi was vital in that campaign. The delegates responded in an extremely positive way for the call to demand that DeutschePost DHL sign a global agreement with UNI and the ITF, an agreement that would ensure unions could be satisfied that there was a process to be certain that DeutschePost DHL truly respects workers rights.



In a somber note to an otherwise up-beat conference, the delegates also showed their international solidarity, sending a message and with the conference making a collection on behalf of the Japanese postal workers sadly missing or killed in the disastrous earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.