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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Michael Sainato

‘Referred to as inmates by managers’: DHL workers push to unionize US hub

A DHL airplane taxis at Miami international airport.
A DHL airplane taxis at Miami. DHL’s super hub at Cincinnati/North Kentucky airport is one of the largest air cargo airports in the world. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

A former manager at one of DHL’s largest facilities claims fellow managers referred to workers as “inmates” and themselves as “wardens” of a prison in conversations about how to stop a union organizing drive at the site.

The revelations come as DHL is at loggerheads with the Teamsters over a union election to represent workers at the site.

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