Category: Mercedes-Benz Group

“Can you explain how opposing union certification and counteracting workplace organizing fits with your commitment to neutrality?”: Speech by Jeremy Kimbrell, United Auto Workers (UAW)

  • 16. April 2026

  • 16. April 2026

My name is Jeremy Kimbrell. I was a 25 Year employee at Mercedes Benz U S International when I led the UAW unionization drive in 2024 in Alabama. Workers had been unhappy for a long time in 2024 when we almost voted for unionization. Insufficient pay, unpleasant shifts, and constant fear of punishment or termination had made MBUSI an undesirable place to work. High turnover, and a reluctance by good, experienced workers to even consider employment there had become a risk to our future. Poor quality, potential product recalls, and personal safety concerns were factors. Workers believed by forming a union, they could make MBUSI a desirable, proud place to work again which would be good for workers, good for investors, and good for Mercedes. Weiterlesen

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“How does hiring so many union busting firms comport with your binding commitment to neutrality?”: Speech by Lisa August-Schmidt, United Auto Workers (UAW

  • 16. April 2026

  • 16. April 2026

Ricardo Pasalagua

Earlier Jeremy Kimbrell asked about the union busting firm RoadWarrior Productions, and I want to ask about a couple of other union busting firms. According to the LM-20 filed with the US Dept of Labor for 2024, you hired Ricardo Pasalagua on April 26th 2024 via your contract with the firm Labor Relations Specialists LLC to persuade employees how to vote in the UAW union election at Mercedes Benz U.S. International assembly plant in Alabama later that year. This document says you had a verbal agreement to pay him $200/hour plus a $59 per diem as well as expenses. Weiterlesen

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Countermotions

  • 1. April 2021

  • 1. April 2021

Regarding Item 2 of the Agenda

The Association of Ethical Shareholders proposes that the allocation of distributable profit as proposed by the management is to be rejected.

Reasons:

By increasing the dividend in the middle of the corona pandemic, Daimler AG is showing its ignorance of the mood of society as a whole. While the Group is receiving the short-time working allowance for some of its workforce, it is now paying out €1.35 per share instead of the 90 cents paid last year. Daimler employees, whose wages have been cut or who are threatened with dismissal due to the savings plan of Daimler CEO Ola Källenius, cannot understand why shareholders are to receive €1.4 billion. Weiterlesen

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