“FrieslandCampina Employees Join Dairy Strike for Better Wages”

Employees of dairy manufacturer FrieslandCampina in Meppel will stop work before midnight on Tuesday. It is one of three locations where there will be a strike next week.

Earlier this week there were also strikes in Marum and Noordwijk. CNV and FNV are now continuing their actions to enforce a better wage offer. According to the trade unions, dairy employers do not want to go beyond 8 percent in wages.

The new series starts on Saturday evening with a 24-hour strike in Steenderen in the Achterhoek, followed on Monday by Borculo and Tuesday by Meppel. “Other dairy companies will soon have their turn if employers do not quickly offer a better collective labor agreement,” says negotiator Henk Jongsma of CNV Vakmensen.