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Aiming to protect thousands of local jobs, Ohio pilots and lawmakers today called for a government investigation into shipping company DHL’s proposed deal with UPS. (See video at right)
At a house Transportation Committee hearing, pilots for ASTAR, which fly out of Wilmington, Ohio, said DHL had not fully considered alternatives to keep the roughly 8,000 jobs in Ohio.
German-owned DHL has said it is losing one-point-three billion dollars a year operating in the U.S. A spokesman said cooperating with UPS is the only way they can stay in business in North America.
Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, D-Ohio, said the company should call their deal what it is – a merger. “Competitors are not partners,” he said. “They never have been. They never will be. You’re either one or the other. So the bottom line is this is a merger in everything but name.”
Ohio lawmakers also chided the company for taking millions of dollars in government subsidies and then taking
“This German company has clearly gotten a lot of help from the state of Ohio; a lot of help from Wilmington, and taxpayers in Clinton County in southwest Ohio and they don’t have the loyalty to the community that frankly this community has earned,” said. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.
DHL has submitted documents about its UPS deal to state and federal justice department officials, company spokesman Jonathan Baker said.
Baker said the deal was to be finalized last month. As soon as it takes effect, jobs could be phased out over the course of one year.
--Neil Simon
At a house Transportation Committee hearing, pilots for ASTAR, which fly out of Wilmington, Ohio, said DHL had not fully considered alternatives to keep the roughly 8,000 jobs in Ohio.
German-owned DHL has said it is losing one-point-three billion dollars a year operating in the U.S. A spokesman said cooperating with UPS is the only way they can stay in business in North America.
Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, D-Ohio, said the company should call their deal what it is – a merger. “Competitors are not partners,” he said. “They never have been. They never will be. You’re either one or the other. So the bottom line is this is a merger in everything but name.”
Ohio lawmakers also chided the company for taking millions of dollars in government subsidies and then taking
“This German company has clearly gotten a lot of help from the state of Ohio; a lot of help from Wilmington, and taxpayers in Clinton County in southwest Ohio and they don’t have the loyalty to the community that frankly this community has earned,” said. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.
DHL has submitted documents about its UPS deal to state and federal justice department officials, company spokesman Jonathan Baker said.
Baker said the deal was to be finalized last month. As soon as it takes effect, jobs could be phased out over the course of one year.
--Neil Simon